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Wildfires in Curumaní

Curumaní, Colombia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 14,016 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Wed 11 Low 35° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 32° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 80 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 81 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 75 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Curumaní: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

14,016
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
4
fires
922
km²

How many times has Curumaní burned?

Curumaní has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Curumaní fire, August 2026, with 7,245 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,016 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,892 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
14,016
cumulative ha
11,892
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 Curumaní

  1. 7,245 ha Curumaní fire, August 2026 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 7,501 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,430 ha Curumaní fire, January 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,461 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,584 ha Curumaní fire, 8 March 2019 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,804 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,757 ha Curumaní fire, 8 March 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,746 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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