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Wildfires in Riohacha

Riohacha, Colombia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 14,945 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.8% 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. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 62 % · 20 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 76 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 79 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 76 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 74 % · 28 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

14,945
hectares burned
4.8 %
of its area
8
fires
3,107
km²

How many times has Riohacha burned?

Riohacha has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Riohacha fire, August 2026, with 1,510 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,945 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,844 hectares, 4.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  4. 4× 19
  5. 3× 20
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  11. 1× 26
8
fires
3
years with fire
14,945
cumulative ha
13,844
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 Riohacha

  1. 1,510 ha Riohacha fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,704 ha Riohacha fire, 16 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,695 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,793 ha Riohacha fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,782 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 1,672 ha Riohacha fire, 2 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,662 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 2,524 ha Riohacha fire, 3 April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,522 ha Riohacha fire, 2 April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,568 ha Riohacha fire, March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,559 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 1,652 ha Riohacha fire, February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,457 ha in total · 4 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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