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PE · Peru · Apurímac · 12,535 inhabitants

Wildfires in Cotabambas

Cotabambas, Peru, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 12,333 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.7% 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 14° · 46 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 46 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 45 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 28 % · 30 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

12,333
hectares burned
4.7 %
of its area
9
fires
2,635
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cotabambas

  1. 296 ha Abancay fire, 6 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 8,522 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,082 ha Cotabambas fire, 3 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,321 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 3,161 ha Cotabambas fire, 1 October 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,388 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,130 ha Chumbivilcas fire, 25 September 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,858 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,328 ha Cotabambas fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,320 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 171 ha Paruro fire, September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,191 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,135 ha Cotabambas fire, August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,468 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,584 ha Cotabambas fire, 13 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,577 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,446 ha Cotabambas fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,438 ha in total · 5 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).