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Wildfires in Sigchos

Sigchos, Ecuador, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 1,467 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% 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 22 Very low 22° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 22° · 76 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 69 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 94 % · 25 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

1,467
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
2
fires
1,361
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Sigchos

  1. 1,092 ha Sigchos fire, September 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 375 ha Mejia fire, September 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 2,920 ha in total · 10 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).