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Wildfires in Mendoza

Mendoza, Argentina: 70 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 18 departments since 2016, burning 288,828 hectares inside the region. The largest was General Alvear in 31 December 2017, with 82,368 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
288,828ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.9%
152,039 km²
fires
70
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 18
Largest fire
82,368ha
General Alvear · 31 December 2017
Inhabitants
599,588
481.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 21° · 41 % · 39 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 30° · 6 % · 58 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Moderate 17° · 28 % · 53 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 40 % · 36 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 22° · 42 % · 47 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 23° · 43 % · 37 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 34 % · 54 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 29° · 31 % · 33 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. General Alvear 52,379 inhabitants 151,898 ha · 10 %
  2. San Rafael 213,204 inhabitants 79,192 ha · 2.5 %
  3. Malargüe 32,596 inhabitants 28,303 ha · 0.7 %
  4. Santa Rosa 13,929 ha · 1.6 %
  5. Luján de Cuyo 5,703 ha · 1.2 %
  6. La Paz 12,018 inhabitants 5,279 ha · 0.7 %
  7. Las Heras 1,794 ha · 0.2 %
  8. Tunuyán 1,548 ha · 0.5 %
  9. Capital 706 ha · 13 %
  10. Tupungato 477 ha · 0.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,500 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
202624,955 San Rafael 2,560 ha
2025621,637 General Alvear 7,764 ha
202435,914 San Rafael 3,664 ha
2023412,942 General Alvear 5,123 ha
202211,710 General Alvear 1,710 ha
202149,587 San Rafael 3,471 ha
202025,228 General Alvear 2,679 ha
2019623,227 Luján de Cuyo 6,180 ha
20181140,695 San Rafael 8,822 ha
201723141,920 General Alvear 82,368 ha
2016821,013 General Alvear 4,430 ha

All fires in Mendoza · 70

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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