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Wildfires in Río de Jesús

Río de Jesús, Panama, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,284 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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. Wed 11 Very low 33° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 32° · 72 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 68 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 31° · 71 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 32° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 32° · 66 % · 25 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Río de Jesús: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,284
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
2
fires
306
km²

How many times has Río de Jesús burned?

Río de Jesús has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Río de Jesús fire, March 2019, with 1,796 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,284 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,777 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
5,284
cumulative ha
3,777
distinct ha

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 Río de Jesús

  1. 1,796 ha Río de Jesús fire, March 2019 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 1,804 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,488 ha Río de Jesús fire, March 2016 where it started 11% of the municipality · 3,466 ha in total · 9 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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