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Wildfires in Villeta

Villeta, Paraguay, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 43,064 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 69 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 53 % · 49 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 44 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 28° · 53 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

43,064
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
18
fires
873
km²

How many times has Villeta burned?

Villeta has burned 18 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Villeta fire, January 2026, with 1,553 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 43,064 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,660 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 1× 26
18
fires
9
years with fire
43,064
cumulative ha
21,660
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 Villeta

  1. 1,553 ha Villeta fire, January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,445 ha Villeta fire, April 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,714 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 2,409 ha Villeta fire, March 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,397 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,367 ha Villeta fire, February 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,368 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 995 ha Nueva Italia fire, 4 July 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 2,949 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 4,872 ha Villeta fire, 14 February 2022 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 4,978 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,335 ha Villeta fire, 2 February 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,325 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 1,961 ha Villeta fire, January 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,989 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 1,048 ha Villa Oliva fire, December 2021 1.2% of the municipality · 58,707 ha in total · 51 days
  10. 1,813 ha Villeta fire, September 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 3,729 ha Villeta fire, 19 August 2020 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 3,713 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 5,672 ha Villeta fire, 19 August 2020 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 22,209 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 3,507 ha Villeta fire, April 2020 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,492 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 2,846 ha Villeta fire, March 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 13,543 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 1,563 ha Villeta fire, February 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,558 ha in total · 20 days
  16. 1,557 ha Villeta fire, September 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,552 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,313 ha Villeta fire, August 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 2,080 ha Villeta fire, July 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 9 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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