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PE · Peru · Cusco · 59,185 inhabitants

Wildfires in Cusco

Cusco, Peru, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 2,646 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 Low 16° · 49 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 18° · 34 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 18° · 43 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 17° · 32 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 16° · 41 % · 58 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 39 % · 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

2,646
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
2
fires
532
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cusco

  1. 1,194 ha Cusco fire, September 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,574 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,453 ha Cusco fire, October 2020 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,444 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).