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PE · Peru · Áncash · 2,087 inhabitants

Wildfires in Huaylas

Huaylas, Peru, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 1,577 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% 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 18° · 39 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 36 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 34 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 25 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 37 % · 41 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

1,577
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
2
fires
2,301
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Huaylas

  1. 561 ha Santa fire, July 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,550 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,016 ha Huaylas fire, August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 1 day

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).