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Wildfires in Tavai

Tavai, Paraguay, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 31,490 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 45 % · 38 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 54 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 72 % · 50 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 23° · 43 % · 40 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 27° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 27° · 40 % · 48 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 28° · 53 % · 44 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 Tavai: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

31,490
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
8
fires
1,413
km²

How many times has Tavai burned?

Tavai has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Alto Vera fire, March 2025, with 380 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,490 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,361 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  2.   17
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  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
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  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
3
years with fire
31,490
cumulative ha
27,361
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 Tavai

  1. 380 ha Alto Vera fire, March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 1,897 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,512 ha Tavai fire, February 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,596 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2,762 ha Tavai fire, January 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,754 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 141 ha Alto Vera fire, 12 January 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,412 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 5,540 ha Tavai fire, 26 September 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 5,522 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 6,417 ha Tavai fire, 19 September 2020 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 6,395 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 13,426 ha Alto Vera fire, September 2020 9.5% of the municipality · 22,550 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 313 ha San Juan Nepomuceno fire, August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,620 ha in total · 16 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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