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VE · Venezuela · Bolívar · 342,280 inhabitants

Wildfires in Heres

Heres, Venezuela, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 31,929 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 26 Moderate 36° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 36° · 45 % · 29 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 36° · 40 % · 55 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 36° · 44 % · 37 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 47 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 36° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 36° · 51 % · 41 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 35° · 48 % · 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

31,929
hectares burned
4.5 %
of its area
17
fires
7,118
km²

How many times has Heres burned?

Heres has burned 17 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Heres fire, 21 March 2026, with 1,841 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,929 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,853 hectares, 3.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
17
fires
8
years with fire
31,929
cumulative ha
27,853
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 Heres

  1. 1,841 ha Heres fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,830 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,093 ha Heres fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,143 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 8,461 ha Heres fire, February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 14,701 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,655 ha Heres fire, March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,645 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,239 ha Heres fire, 15 February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,549 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 54 ha Sucre fire, 15 February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,588 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,327 ha Heres fire, 12 February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,312 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,824 ha Heres fire, January 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,901 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 78 ha Raúl Leoni fire, 26 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,842 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,733 ha Heres fire, 23 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,722 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,558 ha Heres fire, 14 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1 ha Sucre fire, 13 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 1,923 ha Heres fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,911 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,195 ha Heres fire, 6 April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,181 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3 ha Independencia fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,526 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 1,523 ha Heres fire, 18 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 2,420 ha Heres fire, 6 March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 8 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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