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Wildfires in Corrientes

Corrientes, Argentina: 204 fires with a page have entered 23 of its 24 departments since 2016, burning 1,005,955 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Miguel in 10 January 2022, with 191,217 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
1,005,955ha
Since 2016
Of the region
12%
86,791 km²
fires
204
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
23
of 24
Largest fire
191,217ha
San Miguel · 10 January 2022
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 25° · 81 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 72 % · 56 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 54 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 46 % · 27 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. Ituzaingó 254,757 ha · 26 %
  2. Santo Tomé 119,617 ha · 17 %
  3. San Miguel 115,675 ha · 38 %
  4. Concepción 103,913 ha · 20 %
  5. Mercedes 71,639 ha · 7.3 %
  6. Itatí 70,042 ha · 20 %
  7. General Paz 52,002 ha · 20 %
  8. San Martín 47,460 ha · 7.1 %
  9. Curuzú Cuatiá 29,267 ha · 3.5 %
  10. Goya 27,215 ha · 5.7 %
  11. San Roque 20,186 ha · 8.3 %
  12. General Alvear 16,417 ha · 8.4 %

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
202648,959 San Miguel 3,889 ha
20251555,065 Curuzú Cuatiá 15,747 ha
2024612,164 San Miguel 2,330 ha
202332177,278 Ituzaingó 44,379 ha
202291592,680 San Miguel 191,217 ha
2021728,056 Goya 8,779 ha
202037103,488 Santo Tomé 11,415 ha
201923,242 Paso de los Libres 1,724 ha
2018514,585 Concepción 3,966 ha
201723,545 Ituzaingó 1,915 ha
201636,893 Ituzaingó 3,520 ha

All fires in Corrientes · 204

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).