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Wildfires in Fonseca

Fonseca, Colombia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,886 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.2% 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. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 87 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 81 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 91 % · 25 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

3,886
hectares burned
8.2 %
of its area
2
fires
476
km²

How many times has Fonseca burned?

Fonseca has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Fonseca fire, March 2019, with 2,569 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,886 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,937 hectares, 6.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
3,886
cumulative ha
2,937
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 Fonseca

  1. 2,569 ha Fonseca fire, March 2019 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 2,660 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,317 ha Fonseca fire, March 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,660 ha in total · 9 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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