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Wildfires in Santa Elena

Santa Elena, Ecuador, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,667 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% 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. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 29° · 72 % · 35 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 73 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 69 % · 33 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 69 % · 38 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 71 % · 35 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 Santa Elena: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,667
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
5
fires
3,629
km²

How many times has Santa Elena burned?

Santa Elena has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Jipijapa fire, 2 December 2025, with 400 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,667 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,322 hectares, 0.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
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5
fires
3
years with fire
1,667
cumulative ha
1,322
distinct ha

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 Santa Elena

  1. 400 ha Jipijapa fire, 2 December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 469 ha Pedro Carbo fire, November 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,638 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 68 ha Guayaquil fire, November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 655 ha Pedro Carbo fire, 20 November 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,233 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 74 ha Pedro Carbo fire, 4 November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,070 ha in total · 5 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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