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PE · Peru · Apurímac · 13,299 inhabitants

Wildfires in Abancay

Abancay, Peru, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 27,337 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 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. Fri 23 Very low 13° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 12° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 13° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 30 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 43 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 30 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 37 % · 36 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

27,337
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
19
fires
3,477
km²

How many times has Abancay burned?

Abancay has burned 19 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Abancay fire, 6 October 2026, with 2,617 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,337 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,826 hectares, 6.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
19
fires
7
years with fire
27,337
cumulative ha
23,826
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Peru →

Fires that entered Abancay

  1. 2,617 ha Abancay fire, 6 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,789 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 7,743 ha Abancay fire, 6 October 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 8,522 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,030 ha Abancay fire, 3 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 244 ha Cotabambas fire, 1 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,388 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,151 ha Abancay fire, September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,145 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,498 ha Abancay fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,491 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,682 ha Abancay fire, August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,673 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 345 ha Cotabambas fire, August 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,468 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 41 ha Andahuaylas fire, November 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,251 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,074 ha Abancay fire, August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 6 ha Anta fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,077 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,140 ha Abancay fire, November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,135 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,315 ha Abancay fire, 31 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,308 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 987 ha Abancay fire, 11 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 1,229 ha Abancay fire, June 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,081 ha Abancay fire, September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,904 ha Abancay fire, August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,894 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 1,155 ha Abancay fire, July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,148 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,094 ha Abancay fire, September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Instituto Geográfico Nacional - IGN, OCHA ROLAC (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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