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PE · Peru · Arequipa · 61,231 inhabitants

Wildfires in Arequipa

Arequipa, Peru, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 7,308 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% 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 12° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 12° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 12° · 59 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 11° · 57 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 11° · 53 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 9° · 63 % · 47 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 10° · 53 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 11° · 53 % · 46 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

7,308
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
5
fires
9,713
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Arequipa

  1. 1 ha General Sanchez Cerro fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,280 ha Arequipa fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,272 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,742 ha Arequipa fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,730 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,291 ha Arequipa fire, September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,994 ha Arequipa fire, September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,437 ha in total · 3 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).