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Wildfires in Ataco

Ataco, Colombia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 2,423 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Thu 22 Very low 32° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 33° · 40 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 57 % · 27 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

2,423
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
2
fires
1,024
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Ataco

  1. 29 ha Chaparral fire, 18 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,221 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,393 ha Ataco fire, September 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,493 ha in total · 8 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).