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Wildfires in Formosa

Formosa, Argentina: 623 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 9 departments since 2016, burning 2,058,134 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pilcomayo in 5 January 2022, with 81,620 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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
2,058,134ha
Since 2016
Of the region
27%
75,571 km²
fires
623
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 9
Largest fire
81,620ha
Pilcomayo · 5 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. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 62 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 25° · 40 % · 45 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 26° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 27° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 34 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 35 % · 31 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. Patiño 905,320 ha · 34 %
  2. Pilcomayo 332,437 ha · 62 %
  3. Formosa 257,038 ha · 39 %
  4. Bermejo 214,991 ha · 15 %
  5. Pilagás 156,328 ha · 45 %
  6. Pirané 136,352 ha · 16 %
  7. Laishi 47,997 ha · 13 %
  8. Ramón Lista 7,670 ha · 2.0 %

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
20262791,794 Bermejo 21,517 ha
20252866,438 Pilcomayo 4,617 ha
202442155,827 Formosa 23,915 ha
202350154,314 Patiño 10,828 ha
202297437,498 Pilcomayo 81,620 ha
202158160,932 Patiño 15,832 ha
2020182648,193 Patiño 36,397 ha
201939116,215 Patiño 15,384 ha
20182860,490 Bermejo 4,181 ha
20173472,555 Patiño 4,505 ha
20163893,879 Ramón Lista 6,078 ha

All fires in Formosa · 623

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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