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Wildfires in Chubut

Chubut, Argentina: 35 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 15 departments since 2016, burning 247,543 hectares inside the region. The largest was Futaleufú in January 2026, with 66,197 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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
247,543ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.1%
224,067 km²
fires
35
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 15
Largest fire
66,197ha
Futaleufú · January 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Moderate 25° · 20 % · 40 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 23° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 24° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 30° · 14 % · 45 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 24° · 7 % · 43 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 24° · 14 % · 54 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very high 23° · 20 % · 84 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 18° · 16 % · 74 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. Cushamen 88,264 ha · 5.4 %
  2. Futaleufú 75,649 ha · 8.3 %
  3. Biedma 48,646 ha · 3.8 %
  4. Tehuelches 19,069 ha · 1.3 %
  5. Languiñeo 7,916 ha · 0.5 %
  6. Rawson 4,169 ha · 1.0 %
  7. Gaiman 3,831 ha · 0.3 %

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
20263114,758 Futaleufú 66,197 ha
2025940,673 Biedma 9,180 ha
2024311,933 Futaleufú 9,130 ha
202324,512 Futaleufú 2,581 ha
2022217,151 Biedma 14,333 ha
202127,838 Languiñeo 5,401 ha
202023,590 Biedma 3,412 ha
2019315,316 Futaleufú 10,559 ha
201711,540 Futaleufú 1,540 ha
2016830,231 Biedma 9,816 ha

All fires in Chubut · 35

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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