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Wildfires in San Ignacio

San Ignacio, Paraguay, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 25,741 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Fri 13 Low 35° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 36° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Low 33° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 33° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 32° · 60 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 33° · 58 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 28° · 74 % · 52 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 San Ignacio: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

25,741
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
15
fires
1,534
km²

How many times has San Ignacio burned?

San Ignacio has burned 15 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: San Ignacio fire, February 2025, with 1,165 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 25,741 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,089 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
15
fires
6
years with fire
25,741
cumulative ha
22,089
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 San Ignacio

  1. 1,165 ha San Ignacio fire, February 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,619 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,001 ha San Juan Bautista fire, June 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 2,946 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,347 ha San Juan Bautista fire, 15 March 2023 1.5% of the municipality · 5,111 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 214 ha San Ignacio fire, 9 February 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,509 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 8,654 ha San Ignacio fire, 4 February 2023 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 8,613 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 1,813 ha San Ignacio fire, 4 February 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,411 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 216 ha Santiago fire, January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,640 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 794 ha San Juan Bautista fire, 13 February 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 4,698 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,094 ha San Ignacio fire, 11 February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,300 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,943 ha San Ignacio fire, 1 February 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,936 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 48 ha San Juan Bautista fire, 16 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,430 ha San Ignacio fire, 28 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,447 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,360 ha San Ignacio fire, 28 April 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,253 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,992 ha San Ignacio fire, July 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,985 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 670 ha San Juan Bautista fire, July 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 1,553 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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