Wildfires in Castillos
Castillos, Uruguay, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 4,261 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% 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- Thu 22 Very low 18° · 72 % · 46 km/h
- Fri 23 Very low 24° · 64 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 18° · 73 % · 53 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 15° · 64 % · 39 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 14° · 69 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 16° · 69 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 17° · 73 % · 30 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 19° · 57 % · 25 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
- 4,261
- hectares burned
- 1.9 %
- of its area
- 3
- fires
- 2,260
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Castillos
- 979 ha Castillos fire, November 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,295 ha in total · 2 days
- 3,282 ha Castillos fire, February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,651 ha in total · 4 days
- 0 ha Castillos fire, December 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 4 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 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).