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Wildfires in Paltas

Paltas, Ecuador, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2019: 17,967 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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 26° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 86 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 89 % · 30 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

17,967
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
1
fires
1,163
km²

How many times has Paltas burned?

Paltas has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Paltas fire, September 2019, with 17,967 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
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  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
17,967
cumulative ha
18 Sept 2019
most recent

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 Ecuador →

Fires that entered Paltas

  1. 17,967 ha Paltas fire, September 2019 where it started 15% of the municipality · 17,848 ha in total · 1 day

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).

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