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Wildfires in Riobamba

Riobamba, Ecuador, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,290 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% 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 14° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 50 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 17° · 43 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 57 % · 34 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

2,290
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
2
fires
987
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Riobamba

  1. 1,282 ha Riobamba fire, December 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,008 ha Riobamba fire, November 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,001 ha in total · 2 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).