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Wildfires in Chaco

Chaco, Argentina: 151 fires with a page have entered 19 of its 24 departments since 2016, burning 344,579 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tapenagá in January 2022, with 7,122 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: 344,579ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 3.5%; 98,570 km²
fires: 151; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 19; of 24
Largest fire: 7,122ha; Tapenagá · January 2022
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Moderate 36° · 42 % · 35 km/h
Sat 24 Very low 27° · 71 % · 55 km/h
Sun 25 Low 24° · 37 % · 49 km/h
Mon 26 Moderate 26° · 35 % · 27 km/h
Tue 27 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 29 km/h
Wed 28 Moderate 29° · 34 % · 30 km/h
Thu 29 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 32 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

General Güemes 122,638 ha · 4.7 %
Tapenagá 51,080 ha · 8.5 %
Libertador General San Martín 27,563 ha · 3.8 %
Presidencia de la Plaza 21,844 ha · 9.7 %
Maipú 17,874 ha · 6.1 %
San Fernando 15,994 ha · 4.5 %
Mayor Luis J. Fontana 13,421 ha · 3.6 %
San Lorenzo 12,592 ha · 5.9 %
Bermejo 10,836 ha · 4.2 %
Fray Justo Santa María de Oro 10,237 ha · 4.6 %
1ro. de Mayo 8,581 ha · 6.7 %
Sargento Cabral 6,956 ha · 4.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

58×General Güemes122,638 ha
18×Tapenagá51,080 ha
12×Libertador General San Martín27,563 ha
11×Maipú17,874 ha
11×San Fernando15,994 ha
9×General Dónovan5,066 ha
8×Presidencia de la Plaza21,844 ha
8×Mayor Luis J. Fontana13,421 ha

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	1	1,774	Fray Justo Santa María de Oro 1,774 ha
2025	12	24,598	Tapenagá 3,103 ha
2024	10	14,952	Libertador General San Martín 3,104 ha
2023	7	10,299	Libertador General San Martín 2,067 ha
2022	14	34,435	Tapenagá 7,122 ha
2021	8	12,254	General Güemes 1,889 ha
2020	75	198,164	General Güemes 6,978 ha
2019	8	14,048	General Güemes 5,132 ha
2018	6	15,049	General Güemes 4,854 ha
2017	7	13,461	Maipú 2,669 ha
2016	3	5,546	General Güemes 1,893 ha

All fires in Chaco · 151

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).