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Wildfires in Caapucu

Caapucu, Paraguay, has had 57 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 103,137 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

Only fires of 1,500 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. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 30° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 33° · 45 % · 23 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

103,137
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
57
fires
2,496
km²

How many times has Caapucu burned?

Caapucu has burned 57 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Caapucu fire, September 2026, with 1,517 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 19× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 12× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 2× 26
57
fires
11
years with fire
103,137
cumulative ha
5 Sept 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,500 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 Paraguay →

Fires that entered Caapucu

  1. 1,517 ha Caapucu fire, September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,509 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,518 ha Caapucu fire, February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 6 ha Villa Oliva fire, 15 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,877 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,756 ha Caapucu fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,751 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,789 ha Caapucu fire, 5 March 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,784 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,653 ha Caapucu fire, 1 March 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,644 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,035 ha Caapucu fire, February 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,160 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 419 ha Quyquyho fire, June 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,552 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,205 ha Quiindy fire, February 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 2,569 ha Caapucu fire, February 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,560 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 2,190 ha Caapucu fire, 8 January 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 1,628 ha Caapucu fire, 6 January 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,621 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,515 ha Caapucu fire, 4 January 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,509 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 1,586 ha Caapucu fire, 27 December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,580 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 55 ha Villa Oliva fire, December 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,697 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 232 ha Caapucu fire, 17 December 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,651 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 4,089 ha Caapucu fire, 15 March 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,067 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 2,395 ha Caapucu fire, 4 March 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,384 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 3,365 ha Caapucu fire, February 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,352 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 509 ha Villa Oliva fire, February 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 16,508 ha in total · 31 days
  21. 6,713 ha Caapucu fire, February 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 6,694 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 1,935 ha Quyquyho fire, January 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 2,897 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 85 ha Yvycui fire, January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 7,752 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,189 ha Caapucu fire, 16 January 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,801 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,025 ha Quiindy fire, January 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 7,516 ha Villa Oliva fire, December 2021 3.0% of the municipality · 58,707 ha in total · 51 days
  27. 51 ha Villa Oliva fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,884 ha in total · 19 days
  28. 11 ha Villa Oliva fire, 6 July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,267 ha in total · 9 days
  29. 1,224 ha Caapucu fire, 28 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,818 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 924 ha Caapucu fire, 18 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,607 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 1,342 ha Caapucu fire, 12 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,603 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 582 ha Villa Oliva fire, October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 6,465 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 1,640 ha Caapucu fire, 28 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,634 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 2,054 ha Caapucu fire, 26 September 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 1,754 ha Caapucu fire, 11 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,744 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 1,877 ha Caapucu fire, 20 August 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,870 ha in total · 10 days
  37. 1,315 ha Villa Oliva fire, August 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 12,456 ha in total · 18 days
  38. 6,028 ha Caapucu fire, 2 August 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 6,009 ha in total · 10 days
  39. 9 ha Villa Oliva fire, July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 21,230 ha in total · 14 days
  40. 574 ha Villa Oliva fire, 18 June 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,590 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 751 ha Caapucu fire, June 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 14 days
  42. 1,752 ha Caapucu fire, 25 May 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,742 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 1,768 ha Caapucu fire, 9 May 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,762 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 1,890 ha Caapucu fire, 9 May 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,884 ha in total · 1 day
  45. 2,015 ha Caapucu fire, 8 May 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,007 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 4,380 ha Caapucu fire, 6 March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,366 ha in total · 12 days
  47. 1,920 ha Caapucu fire, 5 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,912 ha in total · 10 days
  48. 3,159 ha Caapucu fire, December 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,146 ha in total · 9 days
  49. 1,709 ha Caapucu fire, September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,699 ha in total · 3 days
  50. 2,750 ha Caapucu fire, September 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,734 ha in total · 5 days
  51. 1,967 ha Caapucu fire, 28 August 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,956 ha in total · 3 days
  52. 1,248 ha Villa Oliva fire, 28 August 2018 0.5% of the municipality · 7,903 ha in total · 3 days
  53. 1,646 ha Caapucu fire, 25 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,636 ha in total · 1 day
  54. 527 ha Villa Oliva fire, September 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,027 ha in total · 2 days
  55. 2,032 ha Caapucu fire, August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,026 ha in total · 5 days
  56. 2,048 ha Caapucu fire, 18 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,036 ha in total · 5 days
  57. 1,696 ha Caapucu fire, 14 September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,686 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/Direcion General de Estadica, Encuestas y Censos (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (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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