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Wildfires in Papelón

Papelón, Venezuela, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 28,031 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Low 35° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 34° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 31° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 32° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 32° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 33° · 59 % · 28 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 Papelón: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

28,031
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
15
fires
2,551
km²

How many times has Papelón burned?

Papelón has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Papelón fire, March 2026, with 2,687 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,031 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,171 hectares, 7.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
15
fires
7
years with fire
28,031
cumulative ha
18,171
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 Papelón

  1. 0 ha Santa Rosalía fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,687 ha Papelón fire, March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,812 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,009 ha Santa Rosalía fire, March 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 6,878 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 2,583 ha Papelón fire, February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,567 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,686 ha Papelón fire, February 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,710 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 2,017 ha Papelón fire, 26 February 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,697 ha Santa Rosalía fire, February 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 4,140 ha in total · 24 days
  8. 2,684 ha Papelón fire, 21 February 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,667 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,572 ha Papelón fire, January 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,562 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,739 ha Papelón fire, March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,761 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,602 ha Papelón fire, February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,591 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 22 ha Guanarito fire, 27 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 2,266 ha Papelón fire, March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,252 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 1,684 ha Papelón fire, January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,673 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,742 ha Papelón fire, April 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,725 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 43 ha Santa Rosalía fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,122 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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