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Wildfires in Zanja Pytá

Zanja Pytá, Paraguay, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 4,486 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% 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 7 Low 33° · 51 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 25° · 51 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 27° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Low 29° · 50 % · 53 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Low 31° · 49 % · 46 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 32° · 54 % · 42 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 32° · 53 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Low 33° · 44 % · 41 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 Zanja Pytá: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,486
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
2
fires
526
km²

How many times has Zanja Pytá burned?

Zanja Pytá has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Zanja Pytá fire, August 2024, with 2,762 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,486
cumulative ha
20 Aug 2024
most recent

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 Zanja Pytá

  1. 2,762 ha Zanja Pytá fire, August 2024 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 2,940 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,724 ha Pedro Juan Caballero fire, 19 August 2021 3.3% of the municipality · 1,741 ha in total · 4 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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