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Wildfires in Portovelo

Portovelo, Ecuador, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 1,888 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.6% 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. Thu 12 Very low 28° · 52 % · 39 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 24° · 71 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 23° · 77 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 23° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 24° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 25° · 54 % · 42 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 25° · 55 % · 38 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Portovelo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,888
hectares burned
6.6 %
of its area
3
fires
288
km²

How many times has Portovelo burned?

Portovelo has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Portovelo fire, September 2026, with 1,141 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,888
cumulative ha
7 Sept 2026
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 Portovelo

  1. 1,141 ha Portovelo fire, September 2026 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,136 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 726 ha Portovelo fire, November 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,313 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 22 ha Zaruma fire, September 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 13 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).

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