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PE · Peru · Madre de Dios · 4,648 inhabitants

Wildfires in Tahuamanu

Tahuamanu, Peru, has had 55 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 129,226 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.4% 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. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 76 % · 29 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 79 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 33° · 52 % · 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

129,226
hectares burned
6.4 %
of its area
55
fires
20,057
km²

How many times has Tahuamanu burned?

Tahuamanu has burned 55 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tahuamanu fire, 27 August 2026, with 1,306 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 16× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
55
fires
11
years with fire
129,226
cumulative ha
27 Aug 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 Tahuamanu

  1. 1,306 ha Tahuamanu fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,295 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,347 ha Tahuamanu fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,336 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 1,670 ha Tahuamanu fire, September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,657 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,140 ha Tahuamanu fire, 20 September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,448 ha Tahuamanu fire, 19 September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,437 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,332 ha Tahuamanu fire, 11 September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,322 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,083 ha Tahuamanu fire, 9 September 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,642 ha Tahuamanu fire, 8 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,615 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 4,598 ha Tahuamanu fire, 7 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,560 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 1,884 ha Tahuamanu fire, 29 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,871 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 1,543 ha Tahuamanu fire, 28 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 1,122 ha Tahuamanu fire, 27 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 1,047 ha Tahuamanu fire, 26 August 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 1,417 ha Tahuamanu fire, 25 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,405 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 1,024 ha Tahuamanu fire, 17 August 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 1,243 ha Tahuamanu fire, 12 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 4,318 ha Tahuamanu fire, 10 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,283 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 22,519 ha Tahuamanu fire, 10 August 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 22,349 ha in total · 43 days
  19. 1,036 ha Tahuamanu fire, 1 August 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 1,089 ha Tahuamanu fire, 8 September 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 1,237 ha Tahuamanu fire, 8 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,225 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 1,189 ha Tahuamanu fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,178 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 2,214 ha Tahuamanu fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,197 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 3,072 ha Tahuamanu fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,048 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,186 ha Tahuamanu fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 1,805 ha Tahuamanu fire, 7 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,791 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 1,327 ha Tahuamanu fire, 1 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,316 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 3,669 ha Tahuamanu fire, 29 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,640 ha in total · 15 days
  29. 2,411 ha Tahuamanu fire, 29 August 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 1,090 ha Tahuamanu fire, 5 September 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 841 ha Tahuamanu fire, 2 September 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 6,231 ha Tahuamanu fire, 2 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,184 ha in total · 18 days
  33. 919 ha Tahuamanu fire, 1 September 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,290 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 1,139 ha Tahuamanu fire, August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,130 ha in total · 16 days
  35. 1,055 ha Tahuamanu fire, 9 September 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 1,368 ha Tahuamanu fire, 9 September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,582 ha in total · 11 days
  37. 4,336 ha Tahuamanu fire, 8 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,303 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 3,556 ha Tahuamanu fire, 5 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,529 ha in total · 12 days
  39. 2,535 ha Tahuamanu fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,515 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 1,179 ha Tahuamanu fire, September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 13 days
  41. 1,059 ha Tahuamanu fire, 14 August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 3,449 ha Tahuamanu fire, 13 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,423 ha in total · 12 days
  43. 886 ha Tahuamanu fire, 11 August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 1,085 ha Tahuamanu fire, 1 August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 15 days
  45. 2,226 ha Tahuamanu fire, September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,209 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 4,836 ha Tahuamanu fire, 30 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,800 ha in total · 14 days
  47. 2,249 ha Tahuamanu fire, 27 August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 18 days
  48. 1,097 ha Tahuamanu fire, 24 August 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,086 ha in total · 21 days
  49. 1,312 ha Tahuamanu fire, 20 September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,303 ha in total · 7 days
  50. 1,230 ha Tahuamanu fire, 18 September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 5 days
  51. 6,351 ha Tahuamanu fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,303 ha in total · 8 days
  52. 1,733 ha Tahuamanu fire, 8 September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,720 ha in total · 7 days
  53. 1,024 ha Tahuamanu fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 8 days
  54. 1,496 ha Tahuamanu fire, 26 August 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 4 days
  55. 1,025 ha Tahuamanu fire, 5 August 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,018 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).

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