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Municipalities that have burned most often in Uruguay

Municipalities of Uruguay with at least one fire larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 9. With two or more: 1. Top of the list is Castillos, which has burned 3 times in 3 years, with 4,261 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1CastillosRocha3×3 years · 4,261 ha
  2. 2Piedras ColoradasPaysandú1×1 year · 9,950 ha
  3. 3Nuevo BerlínRío Negro1×1 year · 8,140 ha
  4. 4YoungRío Negro1×1 year · 2,822 ha
  5. 5José Pedro VarelaLavalleja1×1 year · 848 ha
  6. 6VergaraTreinta y Tres1×1 year · 677 ha
  7. 7San JavierRío Negro1×1 year · 613 ha
  8. 8AnsinaTacuarembó1×1 year · 538 ha
  9. 9Villa SaraTreinta y Tres1×1 year · 192 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1Piedras ColoradasPaysandú9,950 ha1× · 8.3 %
  2. 2Nuevo BerlínRío Negro8,140 ha1× · 14 %
  3. 3CastillosRocha4,261 ha3× · 1.9 %
  4. 4YoungRío Negro2,822 ha1× · 2.7 %
  5. 5José Pedro VarelaLavalleja848 ha1× · 1.0 %
  6. 6VergaraTreinta y Tres677 ha1× · 2.1 %
  7. 7San JavierRío Negro613 ha1× · 0.8 %
  8. 8AnsinaTacuarembó538 ha1× · 0.7 %
  9. 9Villa SaraTreinta y Tres192 ha1× · 1.1 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1Nuevo BerlínRío Negro14 %8,140 ha · 603 km²
  2. 2Piedras ColoradasPaysandú8.3 %9,950 ha · 1,204 km²
  3. 3YoungRío Negro2.7 %2,822 ha · 1,029 km²
  4. 4VergaraTreinta y Tres2.1 %677 ha · 325 km²
  5. 5CastillosRocha1.9 %4,261 ha · 2,260 km²
  6. 6Villa SaraTreinta y Tres1.1 %192 ha · 180 km²
  7. 7José Pedro VarelaLavalleja1.0 %848 ha · 852 km²
  8. 8San JavierRío Negro0.8 %613 ha · 815 km²
  9. 9AnsinaTacuarembó0.7 %538 ha · 799 km²

How it is calculated

We count fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached each municipality, even partly. Hectares are those burned inside the municipality and are added fire by fire, so land that burned twice counts twice; that is why the share, given only for municipalities of 10 km² or more, can exceed 100 % (it is then shown as a multiple). It describes what happened: it does not measure risk or say anything about causes.