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Wildfires in La Macarena

La Macarena, Colombia, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 91,349 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.4% 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 31° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 72 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 66 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 65 % · 32 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

91,349
hectares burned
8.4 %
of its area
31
fires
10,911
km²

How many times has La Macarena burned?

La Macarena has burned 31 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Calamar fire, 26 February 2026, with 1,102 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 91,349 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 73,275 hectares, 6.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 10× 22
  8.   23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
31
fires
8
years with fire
91,349
cumulative ha
73,275
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 La Macarena

  1. 1,102 ha Calamar fire, 26 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,824 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,047 ha La Macarena fire, February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,027 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,556 ha La Macarena fire, January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,975 ha La Macarena fire, December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,955 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 872 ha La Macarena fire, February 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,529 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,768 ha La Macarena fire, 21 February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,757 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,649 ha La Macarena fire, 20 February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,638 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 1,955 ha La Macarena fire, 19 February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,941 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,661 ha La Macarena fire, 19 February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,798 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 617 ha La Macarena fire, 19 February 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,484 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 2,102 ha La Macarena fire, February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 2,362 ha La Macarena fire, 27 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 10,459 ha La Macarena fire, 27 January 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,804 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 1,781 ha La Macarena fire, 27 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,769 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 2,065 ha La Macarena fire, 25 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 20,920 ha La Macarena fire, 22 January 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 20,776 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 2,746 ha La Macarena fire, 21 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,727 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 1,567 ha La Macarena fire, 12 January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,557 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,866 ha La Macarena fire, 6 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,853 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 1,787 ha La Macarena fire, 5 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,775 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 3,211 ha La Macarena fire, December 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,189 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 1,368 ha La Macarena fire, March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,824 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 1,571 ha La Macarena fire, 17 February 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 2,846 ha La Macarena fire, 8 February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,827 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 2,278 ha La Macarena fire, 4 February 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,263 ha in total · 15 days
  26. 1,538 ha La Macarena fire, 8 February 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,528 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 3,793 ha La Macarena fire, 8 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 1,300 ha Calamar fire, February 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,423 ha in total · 9 days
  29. 2,653 ha La Macarena fire, 28 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,636 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 3,271 ha La Macarena fire, 25 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,891 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 2,667 ha La Macarena fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,649 ha in total · 14 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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