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Wildfires in Baralt

Baralt, Venezuela, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,591 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,500 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. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 80 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 75 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 77 % · 23 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 84 % · 23 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

17,591
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
8
fires
1,964
km²

How many times has Baralt burned?

Baralt has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Baralt fire, February 2024, with 1,854 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,591 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,046 hectares, 6.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
4
years with fire
17,591
cumulative ha
12,046
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,500 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 Venezuela →

Fires that entered Baralt

  1. 1,854 ha Baralt fire, February 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,842 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,706 ha Baralt fire, March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,689 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 710 ha Torres fire, February 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,596 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 1,877 ha Baralt fire, 8 February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,866 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 3,252 ha Baralt fire, 5 February 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,232 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,490 ha Baralt fire, March 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,678 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,872 ha Baralt fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,848 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 1,830 ha Baralt fire, 12 March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,818 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/Efrain Porto Tapiquen Geografia, SIG y Estudios Ambientales (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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