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Wildfires in Chepigana

Chepigana, Panama, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,830 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. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 73 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 83 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 80 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 86 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 87 % · 21 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

7,830
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
6
fires
7,106
km²

How many times has Chepigana burned?

Chepigana has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Chepigana fire, April 2019, with 1,292 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
2
years with fire
7,830
cumulative ha
8 Apr 2019
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 Chepigana

  1. 1,292 ha Chepigana fire, April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,360 ha Chepigana fire, 22 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,349 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 690 ha Chepigana fire, 21 March 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,083 ha Chepigana fire, 12 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,077 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,985 ha Chepigana fire, 10 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,973 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,419 ha Chepigana fire, 2 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,408 ha in total · 15 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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