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Wildfires in Sosa

Sosa, Venezuela, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 41,115 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Tue 3 Very low 35° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 75 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 78 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 72 % · 29 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

41,115
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
25
fires
3,702
km²

How many times has Sosa burned?

Sosa has burned 25 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sosa fire, March 2026, with 2,274 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 41,115 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 33,051 hectares, 8.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
25
fires
8
years with fire
41,115
cumulative ha
33,051
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 Sosa

  1. 2,274 ha Sosa fire, March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,261 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,558 ha Sosa fire, February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 0 ha Achaguas fire, 12 January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,052 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 678 ha Arismendi fire, 10 April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 5,296 ha Sosa fire, March 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,265 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,167 ha Sosa fire, February 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,870 ha Sosa fire, January 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,859 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 14 ha Muñoz fire, 7 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,760 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 19 ha Muñoz fire, 24 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 92 ha Achaguas fire, 23 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,283 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,768 ha Sosa fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 4,508 ha Sosa fire, 15 March 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,477 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 1,537 ha Sosa fire, 14 March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,528 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 5 ha Arismendi fire, 22 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,471 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,631 ha Sosa fire, March 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,609 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,479 ha Sosa fire, February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,464 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,657 ha Sosa fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 1,761 ha Sosa fire, 12 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,750 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 655 ha Obispos fire, March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,541 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 1,524 ha Sosa fire, 2 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,515 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 9 ha Obispos fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 1,737 ha Sosa fire, 21 March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,726 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 1,455 ha Sosa fire, 18 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,560 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 1,510 ha Sosa fire, 14 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 1,908 ha Sosa fire, March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,896 ha in total · 10 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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