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Wildfires in Orocué

Orocué, Colombia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 30,390 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 33° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 69 % · 29 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

30,390
hectares burned
6.4 %
of its area
12
fires
4,777
km²

How many times has Orocué burned?

Orocué has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Orocué fire, March 2026, with 4,114 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,390 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 29,222 hectares, 6.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
5
years with fire
30,390
cumulative ha
29,222
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 Orocué

  1. 4,114 ha Orocué fire, March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,087 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,856 ha Orocué fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,843 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,740 ha Orocué fire, 5 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,728 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,849 ha Orocué fire, May 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,872 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 4,338 ha Orocué fire, March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,310 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,101 ha Orocué fire, March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,952 ha Orocué fire, February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,932 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,970 ha Orocué fire, January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,952 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,576 ha Orocué fire, 11 March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,561 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,085 ha Orocué fire, 10 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,585 ha Orocué fire, 5 March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,575 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,226 ha Orocué fire, February 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 2 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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