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Wildfires in Mapiripán

Mapiripán, Colombia, has had 49 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 83,709 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.0% 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. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 71 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 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

83,709
hectares burned
7.0 %
of its area
49
fires
12,012
km²

How many times has Mapiripán burned?

Mapiripán has burned 49 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mapiripán fire, 26 February 2026, with 1,565 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 14× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 3× 26
49
fires
11
years with fire
83,709
cumulative ha
26 Feb 2026
most recent

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 Mapiripán

  1. 1,565 ha Mapiripán fire, 26 February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,554 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,390 ha Mapiripán fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,373 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 2,540 ha Mapiripán fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,523 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,515 ha Mapiripán fire, 23 December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,642 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,521 ha Mapiripán fire, 23 December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,511 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 192 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 16 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,941 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 206 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 15 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 10,116 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 1,545 ha Mapiripán fire, 13 December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,535 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,914 ha Mapiripán fire, 28 February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,901 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,800 ha Mapiripán fire, 25 February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,788 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2,295 ha Mapiripán fire, 20 February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,280 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,713 ha Mapiripán fire, January 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,702 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 39 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 23 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 9,019 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 1,980 ha Mapiripán fire, 17 February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,978 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 3,497 ha Mapiripán fire, 17 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,473 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,545 ha Mapiripán fire, 22 February 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,535 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 3,197 ha Mapiripán fire, 20 February 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,175 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,376 ha Mapiripán fire, 20 February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 1,715 ha Mapiripán fire, 18 February 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,704 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 1,583 ha Mapiripán fire, 15 February 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,573 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 2,016 ha Mapiripán fire, 13 February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 2,328 ha Mapiripán fire, 13 February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,311 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 3,171 ha Mapiripán fire, 1 February 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,150 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,661 ha Mapiripán fire, 30 January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,650 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 1,554 ha Mapiripán fire, 28 January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,544 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 1,605 ha Mapiripán fire, 28 January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,594 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 276 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 27 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 7,025 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 1,607 ha Mapiripán fire, 12 January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,596 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,562 ha Mapiripán fire, 5 January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,552 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 129 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 28 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 11,273 ha in total · 18 days
  31. 1,575 ha Mapiripán fire, November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,565 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 1,876 ha Mapiripán fire, March 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,863 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 101 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 1 March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,019 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 131 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 5 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,580 ha in total · 1 day
  35. 1,582 ha Mapiripán fire, March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,571 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 1,514 ha Mapiripán fire, 26 February 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,504 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 81 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 9 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 7,211 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 2,169 ha Mapiripán fire, 4 February 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 1,555 ha Mapiripán fire, 26 February 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 1,839 ha Mapiripán fire, 20 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,826 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 87 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,547 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 87 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 10 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,275 ha in total · 11 days
  43. 2,103 ha Mapiripán fire, 31 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,089 ha in total · 2 days
  44. 1,764 ha Mapiripán fire, 30 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,752 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 3,835 ha Mapiripán fire, 29 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,809 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 3,302 ha Mapiripán fire, 17 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,280 ha in total · 5 days
  47. 2,345 ha Mapiripán fire, 15 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,329 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 3,359 ha Mapiripán fire, 15 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,336 ha in total · 5 days
  49. 3,366 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 7 January 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 32,765 ha in total · 24 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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