Wildfires in Union
Union, Paraguay, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 12,498 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% 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- Fri 23 Very low 35° · 55 % · 53 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 32° · 56 % · 47 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 25° · 54 % · 45 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 24° · 49 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 26° · 49 % · 24 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 28° · 50 % · 20 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 20° · 91 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 27° · 54 % · 24 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
- 12,498
- hectares burned
- 21 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 600
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Union
- 1,262 ha Union fire, March 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,852 ha in total · 5 days
- 5 ha 25 De Diciembre fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,534 ha in total · 6 days
- 5,270 ha Union fire, January 2022 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 6,117 ha in total · 11 days
- 3,964 ha Union fire, April 2020 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 4,482 ha in total · 10 days
- 1,997 ha Union fire, July 2017 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,481 ha in total · 2 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).