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Wildfires in Benítez

Benítez, Venezuela, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 55,645 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% 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. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 78 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 55 % · 30 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

55,645
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
20
fires
2,797
km²

How many times has Benítez burned?

Benítez has burned 20 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Benítez fire, April 2025, with 1,671 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 55,645 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 36,763 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
20
fires
8
years with fire
55,645
cumulative ha
36,763
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 Benítez

  1. 1,671 ha Benítez fire, April 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,660 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,656 ha Benítez fire, 25 April 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,966 ha Benítez fire, 22 April 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,944 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 4,966 ha Benítez fire, 8 April 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,934 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,956 ha Benítez fire, February 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,933 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 20 ha Libertador fire, May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,979 ha Benítez fire, 13 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,967 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,980 ha Benítez fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,967 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 3,903 ha Benítez fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,881 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,990 ha Benítez fire, April 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,978 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,561 ha Benítez fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,551 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 4,065 ha Benítez fire, 12 April 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,039 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 5,737 ha Benítez fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,699 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 1,819 ha Benítez fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,807 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 5,097 ha Benítez fire, March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,066 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,534 ha Benítez fire, 23 April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,525 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 4,963 ha Benítez fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,934 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 1,642 ha Benítez fire, April 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,632 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 1,523 ha Benítez fire, October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,618 ha Benítez fire, March 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 3 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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