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Wildfires in Ortega

Ortega, Colombia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 9,707 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% 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 7 Very low 29° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 34° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Low 34° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Low 33° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 32° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 61 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ortega: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,707
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
4
fires
960
km²

How many times has Ortega burned?

Ortega has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Ortega fire, September 2026, with 2,096 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,707 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,898 hectares, 9.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4
fires
2
years with fire
9,707
cumulative ha
8,898
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 Ortega

  1. 2,096 ha Ortega fire, September 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 5,314 ha Ortega fire, August 2026 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 6,528 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 712 ha Rovira fire, August 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 1,796 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,584 ha Ortega fire, September 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,574 ha in total · 7 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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