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Wildfires in Río Viejo

Río Viejo, Colombia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,021 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Tue 10 Low 34° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Low 34° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Low 34° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 32° · 64 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 31° · 73 % · 14 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 33° · 58 % · 23 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 Río Viejo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

19,021
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
6
fires
851
km²

How many times has Río Viejo burned?

Río Viejo has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Arenal fire, March 2020, with 1,485 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,021 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,025 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
3
years with fire
19,021
cumulative ha
16,025
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 Río Viejo

  1. 1,485 ha Arenal fire, March 2020 1.8% of the municipality · 5,030 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 317 ha Norosí fire, February 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,668 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,815 ha Río Viejo fire, March 2019 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,881 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,592 ha Río Viejo fire, February 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,901 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,390 ha San Martín de Loba fire, 19 March 2016 2.8% of the municipality · 2,926 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 10,422 ha Arenal fire, March 2016 12% of the municipality · 27,819 ha in total · 31 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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