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Wildfires in Puerto López

Puerto López, Colombia, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 40,076 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.8% 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 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 65 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 67 % · 14 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 74 % · 19 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 López: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

40,076
hectares burned
5.8 %
of its area
20
fires
6,955
km²

How many times has Puerto López burned?

Puerto López has burned 20 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Puerto López fire, March 2026, with 1,825 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 40,076 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 34,023 hectares, 4.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
20
fires
8
years with fire
40,076
cumulative ha
34,023
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 Puerto López

  1. 1,825 ha Puerto López fire, March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,812 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,741 ha Puerto López fire, February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,108 ha Puerto López fire, February 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,088 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1 ha Puerto Gaitán fire, 22 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,434 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,973 ha Puerto López fire, March 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,841 ha Puerto López fire, 23 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,828 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,550 ha Puerto López fire, 17 February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,586 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,938 ha Puerto López fire, 16 February 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,925 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,526 ha Puerto López fire, 2 February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,516 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,521 ha Puerto López fire, February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,504 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,529 ha Puerto López fire, 25 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,519 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,551 ha Puerto López fire, 10 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,534 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,847 ha Puerto López fire, 9 February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,834 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 3,049 ha Puerto López fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,029 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,160 ha Puerto López fire, January 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,150 ha Puerto López fire, March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,136 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,561 ha Puerto López fire, 2 February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,551 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 2,587 ha Puerto López fire, 2 February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,570 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 1,868 ha Puerto López fire, 26 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,855 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,751 ha Puerto López fire, 11 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,740 ha in total · 3 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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