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Wildfires in El Chaco

El Chaco, Ecuador, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2025: 367 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% 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. Fri 23 Very low 22° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 63 % · 24 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

367
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
1
fires
3,516
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered El Chaco

  1. 367 ha El Chaco fire, December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,093 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/INEC - Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, OCHA ROLAC (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).