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Wildfires in Calobre

Calobre, Panama, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 3,058 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% 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. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 64 % · 35 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 67 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 73 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 80 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 82 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 82 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 25° · 84 % · 33 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 93 % · 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

3,058
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
2
fires
812
km²

How many times has Calobre burned?

Calobre has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Calobre fire, March 2026, with 1,609 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,058
cumulative ha
14 Mar 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 Panama →

Fires that entered Calobre

  1. 1,609 ha Calobre fire, March 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,598 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,449 ha Calobre fire, March 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,440 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/Milton Solano, of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, on ArcGIS online, GIS Laboratory. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, 2012 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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