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Wildfires in Yabebyry

Yabebyry, Paraguay, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 8,919 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 60 % · 35 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 81 % · 42 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 24° · 56 % · 58 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 21° · 49 % · 38 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 25° · 45 % · 29 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

8,919
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
8
fires
645
km²

How many times has Yabebyry burned?

Yabebyry has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Yabebyry fire, April 2023, with 1,355 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,919 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,828 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
3
years with fire
8,919
cumulative ha
7,828
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 Yabebyry

  1. 1,355 ha Yabebyry fire, April 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,508 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,449 ha Yabebyry fire, March 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 1,300 ha San Ignacio fire, 9 February 2023 2.0% of the municipality · 1,509 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,614 ha San Ignacio fire, 4 February 2023 2.5% of the municipality · 3,411 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 740 ha Santiago fire, January 2023 1.2% of the municipality · 1,640 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,507 ha Yabebyry fire, March 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 226 ha Cerrito fire, 4 February 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 729 ha San Ignacio fire, 28 April 2020 1.1% of the municipality · 3,447 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).

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