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Wildfires in El Paso

El Paso, Colombia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 6,545 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.0% 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. Wed 28 Very low 34° · 56 % · 18 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 34° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 66 % · 13 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 72 % · 22 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

6,545
hectares burned
8.0 %
of its area
5
fires
819
km²

How many times has El Paso burned?

El Paso has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2021. The most recent: El Paso fire, February 2021, with 1,827 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,545 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,219 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
2
years with fire
6,545
cumulative ha
6,219
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 Paso

  1. 1,827 ha El Paso fire, February 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 531 ha La Jagua De Ibirico fire, January 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,551 ha El Paso fire, March 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,541 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,914 ha El Paso fire, 24 February 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,041 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 722 ha El Paso fire, 4 February 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,190 ha in total · 10 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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