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Wildfires in Patamacca

Patamacca, Suriname, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 3,020 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 34 km/h
  3. Thu 5 High 36° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  4. Fri 6 High 36° · 31 % · 38 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 36° · 44 % · 51 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 33° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 34° · 60 % · 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

3,020
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
2
fires
1,260
km²

How many times has Patamacca burned?

Patamacca has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Patamacca fire, September 2025, with 1,835 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,020
cumulative ha
29 Sept 2025
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 Suriname →

Fires that entered Patamacca

  1. 1,835 ha Patamacca fire, September 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,835 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,185 ha Patamacca fire, September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,178 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/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). 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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