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Wildfires in Cerrito

Cerrito, Paraguay, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 14,592 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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 2 Very low 29° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 65 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 84 % · 43 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 52 % · 35 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 24° · 48 % · 62 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 21° · 49 % · 38 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Low 25° · 47 % · 30 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

14,592
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
7
fires
846
km²

How many times has Cerrito burned?

Cerrito has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Cerrito fire, March 2023, with 1,535 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,592 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,126 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
14,592
cumulative ha
11,126
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 Cerrito

  1. 1,535 ha Cerrito fire, March 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,843 ha Cerrito fire, 16 February 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,546 ha Cerrito fire, 3 February 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,536 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 1,643 ha Cerrito fire, 4 February 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 3,883 ha Cerrito fire, 4 February 2022 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 3,867 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,628 ha Cerrito fire, January 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,513 ha Cerrito fire, August 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,506 ha in total · 5 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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