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Wildfires in Barrancas

Barrancas, Colombia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 4,530 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 72 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 66 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 79 % · 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

4,530
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
3
fires
806
km²

How many times has Barrancas burned?

Barrancas has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Barrancas fire, February 2022, with 1,823 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,530 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,023 hectares, 3.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
4,530
cumulative ha
3,023
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 Barrancas

  1. 1,823 ha Barrancas fire, February 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,812 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,706 ha Barrancas fire, March 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,689 ha in total · 24 days
  3. 1 ha Riohacha fire, 2 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 11 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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