Wildfires in Jujuy
Jujuy, Argentina: 25 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 16 departments since 2016, burning 86,236 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ledesma in 2 October 2020, with 16,703 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).
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
- 86,236ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.6%
- 53,809 km²
- fires
- 25
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 16
- Largest fire
- 16,703ha
- Ledesma · 2 October 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very high 19° · 12 % · 85 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 19° · 6 % · 66 km/h
- Mon 26 Extreme 19° · 8 % · 91 km/h
- Tue 27 Very high 17° · 8 % · 71 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 15° · 13 % · 68 km/h
- Thu 29 Very high 16° · 7 % · 84 km/h
- Fri 30 Extreme 16° · 6 % · 90 km/h
- Sat 31 High 18° · 9 % · 84 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Ledesma 62,601 ha · 21 %
- Santa Bárbara 20,434 ha · 4.6 %
- San Pedro 1,982 ha · 1.0 %
- Valle Grande 1,219 ha · 1.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 15×Ledesma62,601 ha
- 8×Santa Bárbara20,434 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 16,703 haLedesma2 October 2020 · 27 days
- 9,031 haLedesmaSeptember 2022 · 14 days
- 6,306 haLedesma7 November 2022 · 14 days
- 5,062 haOrán21 October 2022 · 38 days of 63,108 ha in total
- 4,580 haSanta Bárbara2 November 2020 · 8 days
- 4,570 haLedesma24 November 2022 · 7 days
- 4,386 haSanta BárbaraOctober 2021 · 10 days
- 3,794 haLedesma1 November 2020 · 9 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 4,959 | Ledesma 2,977 ha |
| 2022 | 9 | 32,129 | Ledesma 9,031 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 9,014 | Santa Bárbara 4,386 ha |
| 2020 | 8 | 35,722 | Ledesma 16,703 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 2,741 | Santa Bárbara 1,522 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 1,672 | Santa Bárbara 1,672 ha |
All fires in Jujuy · 25
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,977 haLedesmaOctober 2025 · 4 days
- 1,982 haSan PedroJuly 2025 · 22 days
- 2,154 haLedesmaDecember 2022 · 4 days
- 1,530 haLedesma24 November 2022 · 7 days
- 4,570 haLedesma24 November 2022 · 7 days
- 1,901 haLedesma19 November 2022 · 2 days
- 1,572 haSanta BárbaraNovember 2022 · 2 days
- 6,306 haLedesma7 November 2022 · 14 days
- 5,062 haOrán21 October 2022 · 38 days of 63,108 ha in total
- 9,031 haLedesmaSeptember 2022 · 14 days
- 2 haOrán31 August 2022 · 19 days of 3,206 ha in total
- 2,575 haSanta BárbaraDecember 2021 · 5 days
- 2,053 haSanta BárbaraNovember 2021 · 4 days
- 4,386 haSanta BárbaraOctober 2021 · 10 days
- 2,074 haSanta Bárbara21 November 2020 · 5 days
- 2,842 haLedesma3 November 2020 · 7 days
- 3,732 haLedesma2 November 2020 · 7 days
- 4,580 haSanta Bárbara2 November 2020 · 8 days
- 3,794 haLedesma1 November 2020 · 9 days
- 1,665 haLedesma27 October 2020 · 2 days
- 332 haOrán6 October 2020 · 18 days of 11,632 ha in total
- 16,703 haLedesma2 October 2020 · 27 days
- 1,522 haSanta BárbaraOctober 2019 · 8 days
- 1,219 haOrán7 September 2019 · 3 days of 2,955 ha in total
- 1,672 haSanta BárbaraOctober 2018 · 5 days
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).
Tell me what burns here
New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.