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Wildfires in Venezuela

Venezuela, Cuba, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,675 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 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. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 61 % · 16 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 73 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 71 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 70 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 75 % · 31 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 64 % · 35 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

8,675
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
8
fires
783
km²

How many times has Venezuela burned?

Venezuela has burned 8 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Venezuela fire, February 2026, with 1,279 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,675 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,360 hectares, 6.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
7
years with fire
8,675
cumulative ha
5,360
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Cuba →

Fires that entered Venezuela

  1. 1,279 ha Venezuela fire, February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,323 ha Venezuela fire, February 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,317 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 88 ha La Sierpe fire, February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,569 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 813 ha Venezuela fire, April 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 305 ha Baraguá fire, April 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,276 ha Venezuela fire, April 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,095 ha Venezuela fire, February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,090 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 2,496 ha Venezuela fire, April 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,873 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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