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Wildfires in Chimán

Chimán, Panama, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,251 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.1% 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. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 74 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 77 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 70 % · 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

7,251
hectares burned
7.1 %
of its area
7
fires
1,016
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chimán

  1. 1,117 ha Chimán fire, March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,274 ha Chimán fire, 28 March 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,266 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,075 ha Chimán fire, 27 March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 398 ha Chepigana fire, 26 March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,171 ha Chimán fire, 12 March 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,092 ha Chimán fire, 30 March 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,085 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,123 ha Chimán fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,115 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/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).