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PE · Peru · Cajamarca · 811 inhabitants

Wildfires in Chota

Chota, Peru, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,564 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% 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. Thu 22 Very low 22° · 47 % · 47 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 20° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 63 % · 37 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 61 % · 42 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 85 % · 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

17,564
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
8
fires
3,784
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chota

  1. 104 ha Cutervo fire, November 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,254 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,196 ha Chota fire, September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,629 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 335 ha Celendín fire, November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,358 ha Chota fire, 18 November 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,349 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,243 ha Chota fire, 18 November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 167 ha Ferreñafe fire, 17 November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,417 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 12,111 ha Chota fire, 17 November 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 12,032 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,050 ha Chota fire, 14 November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 9 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).