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VE · Venezuela · Cojedes · 12,657 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ricaurte

Ricaurte, Venezuela, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 16,389 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sun 1 Low 34° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 66 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 73 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 60 % · 22 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

16,389
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
8
fires
952
km²

How many times has Ricaurte burned?

Ricaurte has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Ricaurte fire, February 2026, with 4,389 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,389 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,498 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
16,389
cumulative ha
12,498
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 Ricaurte

  1. 4,389 ha Ricaurte fire, February 2026 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 4,364 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,547 ha Pao de San Juan Bautista fire, 21 February 2026 1.6% of the municipality · 8,442 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 4,365 ha Ricaurte fire, March 2024 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 4,740 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 2,406 ha Ricaurte fire, February 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,391 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 56 ha Girardot fire, 15 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 474 ha Girardot fire, March 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 3,440 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,852 ha Ricaurte fire, April 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,841 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,299 ha Ricaurte fire, March 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,702 ha in total · 13 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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