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Wildfires in Arenal

Arenal, Colombia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,388 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 80 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 82 % · 17 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 26° · 86 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 77 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 73 % · 26 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,388
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
5
fires
465
km²

How many times has Arenal burned?

Arenal has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Arenal fire, February 2021, with 1,909 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,388 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,310 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
10,388
cumulative ha
7,310
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,500 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Colombia →

Fires that entered Arenal

  1. 1,909 ha Arenal fire, February 2021 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 3,578 ha Arenal fire, March 2020 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 5,030 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 74 ha Morales fire, February 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,503 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,644 ha Arenal fire, February 2019 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 2,953 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,184 ha Arenal fire, March 2016 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 28,340 ha in total · 31 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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