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Wildfires in Puerto Guzmán

Puerto Guzmán, Colombia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,794 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% 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. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 78 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 60 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 32° · 60 % · 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 Puerto Guzmán: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,794
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
4
fires
4,603
km²

How many times has Puerto Guzmán burned?

Puerto Guzmán has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2023. The most recent: Puerto Guzmán fire, 26 January 2023, with 2,251 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
7,794
cumulative ha
26 Jan 2023
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 Puerto Guzmán

  1. 2,251 ha Puerto Guzmán fire, 26 January 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,034 ha Puerto Guzmán fire, 26 January 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,020 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,981 ha Puerto Guzmán fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,968 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,528 ha Puerto Guzmán fire, January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,518 ha in total · 13 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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