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Wildfires in Valledupar

Valledupar, Colombia, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,566 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% 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 28 Very low 31° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 70 % · 26 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

79,566
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
31
fires
4,212
km²

How many times has Valledupar burned?

Valledupar has burned 31 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Valledupar fire, February 2025, with 1,724 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,566 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 44,511 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 8× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
31
fires
9
years with fire
79,566
cumulative ha
44,511
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 Valledupar

  1. 1,724 ha Valledupar fire, February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,714 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,196 ha Valledupar fire, February 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,183 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,667 ha Valledupar fire, January 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,657 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,535 ha Valledupar fire, 22 February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,526 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,080 ha San Juan Del Cesar fire, February 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,726 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,821 ha Valledupar fire, 4 February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,811 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 2,185 ha Valledupar fire, 20 February 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,172 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 2,478 ha Valledupar fire, 18 February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 6,117 ha Valledupar fire, 25 February 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,080 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 2,966 ha Valledupar fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,948 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 3,567 ha Valledupar fire, 20 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,543 ha in total · 20 days
  12. 2,491 ha Valledupar fire, 19 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,477 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 2,009 ha Valledupar fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,995 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 1,609 ha Valledupar fire, 13 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,600 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 5,439 ha Valledupar fire, 10 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,406 ha in total · 19 days
  16. 1,206 ha El Copey fire, March 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 4,772 ha in total · 25 days
  17. 4,060 ha Valledupar fire, February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,036 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 24 ha El Copey fire, February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,415 ha in total · 21 days
  19. 527 ha San Diego fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,999 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 238 ha La Paz fire, February 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,247 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 4,263 ha Valledupar fire, 23 February 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,238 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 1,563 ha Valledupar fire, 9 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,554 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 2,748 ha Valledupar fire, March 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,729 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 1,610 ha Valledupar fire, 19 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,615 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 5,295 ha Valledupar fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,264 ha in total · 17 days
  26. 384 ha El Copey fire, March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,556 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 3,227 ha Valledupar fire, 8 March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,204 ha in total · 18 days
  28. 2,153 ha Valledupar fire, 2 March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,490 ha in total · 16 days
  29. 2,236 ha Valledupar fire, 19 February 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,221 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 1,566 ha Valledupar fire, 16 February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,557 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 9,582 ha Valledupar fire, 14 February 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 9,524 ha in total · 22 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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