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Wildfires in Catamarca

Catamarca, Argentina: 49 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 18 departments since 2016, burning 160,511 hectares inside the region. The largest was Capayán in November 2017, with 34,029 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
160,511ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.5%
104,719 km²
fires
49
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
15
of 18
Largest fire
34,029ha
Capayán · November 2017
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 18° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 17° · 49 % · 47 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 38 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 41 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 24° · 35 % · 41 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Capayán 60,441 ha · 14 %
  2. Andalgalá 25,305 ha · 5.3 %
  3. Ambato 16,147 ha · 8.8 %
  4. Pomán 15,550 ha · 2.8 %
  5. Capital 8,104 ha · 20 %
  6. Ancasti 7,360 ha · 3.7 %
  7. Paclín 6,150 ha · 6.2 %
  8. El Alto 5,580 ha · 2.9 %
  9. Santa María 4,283 ha · 0.8 %
  10. La Paz 2,883 ha · 0.3 %
  11. Valle Viejo 2,751 ha · 4.5 %
  12. Tafí del Valle 2,207 ha · 0.9 %

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
2026511,148 Capayán 3,019 ha
202535,249 Pomán 2,008 ha
202436,461 Andalgalá 2,404 ha
202323,879 Ambato 2,015 ha
2022917,756 Andalgalá 4,531 ha
202149,040 Ancasti 3,859 ha
2020932,405 Capayán 11,371 ha
201936,471 Capayán 2,336 ha
201826,402 Paclín 4,974 ha
2017441,120 Capayán 34,029 ha
2016520,580 Capayán 10,765 ha

All fires in Catamarca · 49

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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