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Wildfires in Olá

Olá, Panama, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 1,203 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% 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 26° · 82 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 86 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 82 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 79 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 68 % · 28 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

1,203
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
2
fires
380
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Olá

  1. 1 ha Natá fire, 8 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,943 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,202 ha Olá fire, April 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 4 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).