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PE · Peru · Apurímac · 1,582 inhabitants

Wildfires in Chincheros

Chincheros, Peru, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 4,475 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 35 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 33 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 52 % · 50 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 31 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 27 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 36 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 35 % · 34 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

4,475
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
4
fires
1,518
km²

How many times has Chincheros burned?

Chincheros has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Chincheros fire, October 2026, with 1,591 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
4,475
cumulative ha
4 Oct 2026
most recent

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 Chincheros

  1. 1,591 ha Chincheros fire, October 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,580 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,230 ha Chincheros fire, September 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,653 ha Chincheros fire, October 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,642 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1 ha Vilcas Huamán fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,279 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).

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