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Wildfires in Zaruma

Zaruma, Ecuador, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,207 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.4% 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 17° · 66 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 77 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 78 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 92 % · 30 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

2,207
hectares burned
3.4 %
of its area
3
fires
656
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Zaruma

  1. 3 ha Portovelo fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,136 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,093 ha Zaruma fire, September 2024 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 111 ha Saraguro fire, November 2016 0.2% 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).