Wildfires in La Roja
La Roja, Argentina: 40 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 18 departments since 2016, burning 279,884 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sanagasta in October 2017, with 38,194 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
- 279,884ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.1%
- 91,645 km²
- fires
- 40
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 16
- of 18
- Largest fire
- 38,194ha
- Sanagasta · October 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Very low 14° · 59 % · 36 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 14° · 58 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 18° · 31 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 19° · 28 % · 39 km/h
- Sun 1 Low 22° · 17 % · 45 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 18° · 47 % · 43 km/h
- Tue 3 Low 22° · 17 % · 77 km/h
- Wed 4 Low 17° · 28 % · 50 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Capital 58,290 ha · 4.3 %
- Chilecito 46,971 ha · 8.9 %
- Sanagasta 33,057 ha · 25 %
- General Ángel V. Peñaloza 27,513 ha · 8.8 %
- Castro Barros 23,028 ha · 15 %
- San Blas de los Sauces 21,608 ha · 15 %
- Independencia 20,374 ha · 2.9 %
- General Juan F.Quiroga 10,350 ha · 2.4 %
- General Belgrano 10,170 ha · 3.6 %
- Rosario Vera Peñaloza 8,438 ha · 1.7 %
- Chamical 6,734 ha · 1.2 %
- Vinchina 5,064 ha · 0.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 14×Capital58,290 ha
- 8×Chilecito46,971 ha
- 6×General Ángel V. Peñaloza27,513 ha
- 6×Independencia20,374 ha
- 5×General Belgrano10,170 ha
- 3×Sanagasta33,057 ha
- 3×Castro Barros23,028 ha
- 3×General Juan F.Quiroga10,350 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 38,194 haSanagastaOctober 2017 · 20 days
- 31,962 haCapitalAugust 2024 · 27 days
- 28,045 haSan Blas de los SaucesSeptember 2017 · 21 days
- 18,323 haGeneral Ángel V. PeñalozaOctober 2021 · 18 days
- 13,292 haGeneral Juan F.QuirogaNovember 2017 · 15 days
- 12,900 haSanagastaAugust 2016 · 6 days
- 10,846 haChilecitoNovember 2023 · 13 days
- 10,094 haCapital12 September 2022 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 9,642 | Chilecito 7,672 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 20,487 | General Ángel V. Peñaloza 8,675 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 33,639 | Capital 31,962 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 10,846 | Chilecito 10,846 ha |
| 2022 | 10 | 41,148 | Capital 10,094 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 24,596 | General Ángel V. Peñaloza 18,323 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 6,302 | Independencia 2,653 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 4,239 | Capital 2,244 ha |
| 2017 | 10 | 108,895 | Sanagasta 38,194 ha |
| 2016 | 4 | 20,089 | Sanagasta 12,900 ha |
All fires in La Roja · 40
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,970 haChilecito27 July 2026 · 3 days
- 7,672 haChilecito27 July 2026 · 6 days
- 6,177 haIndependencia19 November 2025 · 11 days
- 5,635 haIndependencia18 November 2025 · 11 days
- 8,675 haGeneral Ángel V. PeñalozaNovember 2025 · 11 days
- 1,677 haCapitalSeptember 2024 · 13 days
- 31,962 haCapitalAugust 2024 · 27 days
- 10,846 haChilecitoNovember 2023 · 13 days
- 1,624 haGeneral Ángel V. PeñalozaNovember 2022 · 4 days
- 9,091 haGeneral BelgranoNovember 2022 · 10 days
- 6,946 haRosario Vera Peñaloza27 October 2022 · 13 days
- 1,492 haRosario Vera Peñaloza13 October 2022 · 3 days of 3,000 ha in total
- 1,978 haCapital13 September 2022 · 2 days
- 3,186 haCapital13 September 2022 · 2 days
- 2,470 haCapital13 September 2022 · 4 days
- 2,470 haCapital12 September 2022 · 1 day
- 10,094 haCapital12 September 2022 · 3 days
- 1,798 haIndependenciaJanuary 2022 · 7 days
- 3,883 haCapitalNovember 2021 · 19 days of 4,337 ha in total
- 2,391 haIndependenciaOctober 2021 · 3 days
- 18,323 haGeneral Ángel V. PeñalozaOctober 2021 · 18 days
- 2,000 haGeneral Ángel V. PeñalozaSeptember 2020 · 14 days
- 2,653 haIndependenciaAugust 2020 · 7 days
- 1,648 haGeneral Ángel V. PeñalozaAugust 2020 · 7 days
- 1,994 haCapital12 October 2019 · 1 day
- 2,244 haCapital11 October 2019 · 1 day
- 207 haCapayánNovember 2017 · 14 days of 34,177 ha in total
- 7,330 haChilecitoNovember 2017 · 6 days
- 13,292 haGeneral Juan F.QuirogaNovember 2017 · 15 days
- 2,883 haCapitalNovember 2017 · 15 days
- 38,194 haSanagastaOctober 2017 · 20 days
- 5,064 haVinchinaOctober 2017 · 5 days
- 9,694 haCastro BarrosSeptember 2017 · 12 days
- 28,045 haSan Blas de los SaucesSeptember 2017 · 21 days
- 1,617 haFamatinaSeptember 2017 · 4 days of 1,942 ha in total
- 2,569 haCapitalAugust 2017 · 19 days
- 1,802 haGeneral BelgranoDecember 2016 · 4 days
- 2,813 haCapitalOctober 2016 · 20 days
- 12,900 haSanagastaAugust 2016 · 6 days
- 2,573 haChilecitoJuly 2016 · 9 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).
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