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Wildfires in Loja

Loja, Ecuador, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 30,303 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% 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° · 60 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 49 % · 49 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 71 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 88 % · 32 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

30,303
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
13
fires
1,908
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Loja

  1. 1,410 ha Loja fire, August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,400 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 4,627 ha Loja fire, 12 November 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,596 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,581 ha Loja fire, 11 November 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,097 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 596 ha Portovelo fire, November 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,313 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,145 ha Loja fire, September 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 6,417 ha Quilanga fire, August 2024 3.4% of the municipality · 13,954 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 1,068 ha Loja fire, September 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,082 ha Loja fire, August 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,068 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,339 ha Loja fire, 18 September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 3,903 ha Catamayo fire, September 2019 2.0% of the municipality · 18,826 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 3,323 ha Loja fire, 2 September 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 10,727 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,803 ha Loja fire, July 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,791 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 7 ha Quilanga fire, August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,081 ha in total · 3 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).