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Wildfires in Saraguro

Saraguro, Ecuador, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,541 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 23° · 44 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 47 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 59 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 70 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 66 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 73 % · 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

1,541
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
2
fires
1,089
km²

How many times has Saraguro burned?

Saraguro has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2024. The most recent: Loja fire, 11 November 2024, with 530 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,541
cumulative ha
11 Nov 2024
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 Saraguro

  1. 530 ha Loja fire, 11 November 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 2,097 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,012 ha Saraguro fire, November 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,115 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).

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