Wildfires in Bejuma
Bejuma, Venezuela, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,817 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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- Tue 27 Very low 27° · 70 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 27° · 67 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 28° · 57 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 26° · 75 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 26° · 70 % · 29 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 28° · 58 % · 25 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 28° · 66 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 26° · 77 % · 21 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
- 20,817
- hectares burned
- 38 %
- of its area
- 12
- fires
- 555
- km²
How many times has Bejuma burned?
Bejuma has burned 12 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Falcón fire, 18 March 2026, with 443 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,817 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,712 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.
- 12
- fires
- 4
- years with fire
- 20,817
- cumulative ha
- 12,712
- 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.
Fires that entered Bejuma
- 443 ha Falcón fire, 18 March 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 2,383 ha in total · 9 days
- 3,800 ha Falcón fire, 16 March 2026 6.8% of the municipality · 4,316 ha in total · 10 days
- 592 ha Libertador fire, March 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 1,814 ha in total · 11 days
- 1,794 ha Bejuma fire, February 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,782 ha in total · 5 days
- 1,064 ha Bejuma fire, 15 March 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,159 ha in total · 23 days
- 1,828 ha Bejuma fire, 1 March 2024 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,469 ha in total · 8 days
- 1,819 ha Bejuma fire, January 2024 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,114 ha in total · 4 days
- 4,966 ha Falcón fire, March 2020 9.0% of the municipality · 7,646 ha in total · 16 days
- 1,641 ha Bejuma fire, January 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,881 ha in total · 6 days
- 297 ha Falcón fire, March 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 1,500 ha in total · 7 days
- 498 ha Libertador fire, 7 March 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 2,378 ha in total · 9 days
- 2,075 ha Bejuma fire, March 2016 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,436 ha in total · 12 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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