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VE · Venezuela · Monagas · 24,238 inhabitants

Wildfires in Sotillo

Sotillo, Venezuela, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 54,620 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 36% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Fri 30 Low 34° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 56 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Low 34° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Low 33° · 55 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low 34° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Low 34° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 34° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 34 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

54,620
hectares burned
36 %
of its area
11
fires
1,514
km²

How many times has Sotillo burned?

Sotillo has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sotillo fire, May 2026, with 4,153 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 54,620 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 34,995 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
54,620
cumulative ha
34,995
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 Sotillo

  1. 4,153 ha Sotillo fire, May 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 7,311 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 976 ha Libertador fire, 25 April 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 7,160 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 340 ha Uracoa fire, April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,754 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 5,375 ha Sotillo fire, April 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 5,342 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 992 ha Libertador fire, 20 March 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 3,108 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 6,403 ha Sotillo fire, March 2025 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 6,362 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 28,043 ha Sotillo fire, March 2024 where it started 19% of the municipality · 39,607 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 1,795 ha Sotillo fire, December 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,795 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 3,037 ha Sotillo fire, August 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,018 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 653 ha Libertador fire, April 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 3,072 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 2,851 ha Sotillo fire, April 2018 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,833 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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