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Wildfires in Barinas

Barinas, Venezuela, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 39,633 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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. Sat 7 Very low 34° · 51 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 32° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 32° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 74 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 77 % · 32 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Barinas: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

39,633
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
22
fires
3,472
km²

How many times has Barinas burned?

Barinas has burned 22 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Barinas fire, March 2026, with 1,552 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 39,633 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,777 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
22
fires
8
years with fire
39,633
cumulative ha
27,777
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 Barinas

  1. 1,552 ha Barinas fire, March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,544 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,337 ha Barinas fire, March 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,860 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 3,073 ha Barinas fire, February 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,258 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 49 ha Muñoz fire, 19 February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,610 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 841 ha Pedraza fire, 15 March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 4,036 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,744 ha Barinas fire, January 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,732 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,422 ha Barinas fire, 31 March 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,112 ha Barinas fire, 25 March 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 2,073 ha Pedraza fire, March 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 3,003 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 2,167 ha Barinas fire, April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,153 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2,618 ha Barinas fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,603 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,020 ha Barinas fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,966 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 2,010 ha Barinas fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,998 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,861 ha Barinas fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,923 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,543 ha Barinas fire, February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,533 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 2,160 ha Barinas fire, January 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,145 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,369 ha Obispos fire, March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,446 ha Barinas fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 4,107 ha Barinas fire, 17 March 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,282 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 83 ha Pedraza fire, 19 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,421 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,670 ha Barinas fire, March 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,661 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 2,376 ha Barinas fire, March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,374 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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