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PE · Peru · Áncash · 25,974 inhabitants

Wildfires in Yungay

Yungay, Peru, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 2,819 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 26 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 30 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 19 % · 45 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 20° · 26 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 20° · 26 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 22° · 21 % · 40 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

2,819
hectares burned
2.1 %
of its area
3
fires
1,371
km²

How many times has Yungay burned?

Yungay has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Yungay fire, October 2026, with 1,532 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
2,819
cumulative ha
1 Oct 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 Yungay

  1. 1,532 ha Yungay fire, October 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,522 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,279 ha Yungay fire, September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,271 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 8 ha Carhuaz fire, September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 6 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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