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Wildfires in Upper Demerara-Berbice

Upper Demerara-Berbice, Guyana, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 29,579 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Sat 31 Low 34° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Low 34° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Low 35° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Low 35° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 35° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 31 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

29,579
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
19
fires
16,233
km²

How many times has Upper Demerara-Berbice burned?

Upper Demerara-Berbice has burned 19 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 22 October 2026, with 1,041 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 10× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
19
fires
5
years with fire
29,579
cumulative ha
22 Oct 2026
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 Guyana →

Fires that entered Upper Demerara-Berbice

  1. 1,041 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,168 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 18 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,160 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,038 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 17 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 3,566 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 6 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,543 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 4,160 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,132 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,225 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 7 April 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,216 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,196 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 1 April 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,995 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 28 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,981 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 1,020 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 28 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,951 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 23 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,938 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 2,587 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 22 March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,079 ha in total · 26 days
  12. 1,029 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 21 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 1,123 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 21 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 1,712 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, 8 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,700 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 490 ha East Berbice-Corentyne fire, 28 February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,853 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 999 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 1,253 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,933 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 941 ha East Berbice-Corentyne fire, April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,765 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 1,084 ha Upper Demerara-Berbice fire, October 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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