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Wildfires in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina: 216 fires with a page have entered 27 of its 139 departments since 2016, burning 880,396 hectares inside the region. The largest was Victoria in 17 July 2022, with 38,120 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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

hectares burned
880,396ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.3%
384,984 km²
fires
216
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
27
of 139
Largest fire
38,120ha
Victoria · 17 July 2022
Inhabitants
8,764,986
100.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 22° · 67 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Low 23° · 35 % · 58 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 26° · 33 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Low 24° · 41 % · 27 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Victoria 289,539 ha · 43 %
  2. Gualeguay 255,985 ha · 39 %
  3. Islas del Ibicuy 77,809 ha · 16 %
  4. Villarino 30,745 inhabitants 75,404 ha · 7.2 %
  5. Patagones 30,806 inhabitants 55,540 ha · 4.1 %
  6. Zárate 111,597 inhabitants 21,200 ha · 18 %
  7. Baradero 42,921 inhabitants 16,050 ha · 10 %
  8. Coronel Dorrego 15,825 inhabitants 13,871 ha · 2.4 %
  9. Campana 94,333 inhabitants 13,734 ha · 14 %
  10. Diamante 9,595 ha · 3.6 %
  11. Villaguay 8,043 ha · 1.2 %
  12. Puán 15,603 inhabitants 7,359 ha · 1.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202612,421 Villaguay 2,421 ha
2025736,005 Coronel Dorrego 6,885 ha
20232053,236 Gualeguay 6,255 ha
202249226,419 Victoria 38,120 ha
202137110,908 Gualeguay 12,426 ha
202067315,953 Gualeguay 29,348 ha
2019719,703 Villarino 6,522 ha
201811,645 Federal 1,645 ha
2017925,083 Coronel Dorrego 4,266 ha
20161889,022 Caleu Caleu 20,067 ha

All fires in Buenos Aires · 216

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic). 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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