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Wildfires in Capitán Bado

Capitán Bado, Paraguay, has had 33 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 84,641 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 10 Low 29° · 50 % · 50 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 64 % · 41 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 31° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 33° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Low 33° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 67 % · 38 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 29° · 78 % · 27 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 Capitán Bado: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

84,641
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
33
fires
3,632
km²

How many times has Capitán Bado burned?

Capitán Bado has burned 33 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Capitán Bado fire, July 2026, with 1,472 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 84,641 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 48,024 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4. 11× 19
  5.   20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
33
fires
7
years with fire
84,641
cumulative ha
48,024
distinct ha

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 Capitán Bado

  1. 1,472 ha Capitán Bado fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,912 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,682 ha Capitán Bado fire, 18 August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,673 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,717 ha Capitán Bado fire, 16 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,708 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,583 ha Capitán Bado fire, 14 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,938 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 3,322 ha Capitán Bado fire, June 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,306 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 1,509 ha Capitán Bado fire, 15 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 7,706 ha Capitán Bado fire, 11 October 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 7,670 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 2,116 ha Capitán Bado fire, 10 October 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 195 ha Tacuati fire, 6 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,769 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 1,522 ha Capitán Bado fire, January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,515 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2,344 ha Capitán Bado fire, 19 August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 16 ha Tacuati fire, 19 August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,677 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 999 ha Santa Rosa Del Aguaray fire, 18 August 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,692 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 553 ha Santa Rosa Del Aguaray fire, 17 August 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 4,684 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 10,306 ha Capitán Bado fire, 16 August 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 10,256 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,918 ha Capitán Bado fire, 5 August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,908 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,726 ha Capitán Bado fire, October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,846 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 84 ha Tacuati fire, 28 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,819 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 2,989 ha Capitán Bado fire, 28 September 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,975 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 1,749 ha Capitán Bado fire, 20 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,741 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 3,148 ha Capitán Bado fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,134 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 1,550 ha Capitán Bado fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,677 ha Capitán Bado fire, 8 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,666 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 8,691 ha Capitán Bado fire, 7 September 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 8,645 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 4,919 ha Pedro Juan Caballero fire, 7 September 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 8,021 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 261 ha Santa Rosa Del Aguaray fire, 7 September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 7,592 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 2,461 ha Capitán Bado fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 296 ha Tacuati fire, 4 October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,504 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 2,670 ha Capitán Bado fire, 19 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,657 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 263 ha Itanará fire, September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,842 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 8,338 ha Capitán Bado fire, 3 September 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 8,187 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 1,616 ha Capitán Bado fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,607 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 2,241 ha Capitán Bado fire, July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,227 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/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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