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Wildfires in El Copey

El Copey, Colombia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,071 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% 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. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 85 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 75 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 76 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 76 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 76 % · 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

19,071
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
7
fires
962
km²

How many times has El Copey burned?

El Copey has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: El Copey fire, January 2024, with 3,398 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,071 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,802 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
19,071
cumulative ha
10,802
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 El Copey

  1. 3,398 ha El Copey fire, January 2024 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 3,377 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,924 ha El Copey fire, February 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,912 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3,594 ha El Copey fire, March 2020 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 4,772 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 2,406 ha El Copey fire, February 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,415 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 4,205 ha El Copey fire, January 2019 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 4,180 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 1,181 ha El Copey fire, March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,556 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,363 ha Valledupar fire, 2 March 2016 2.5% of the municipality · 4,490 ha in total · 16 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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