Wildfires in Misiones
Misiones, Argentina: 8 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 17 departments since 2016, burning 17,033 hectares inside the region. The largest was Libertador General San Martín in January 2022, with 3,519 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
- 17,033ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 30,286 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 9
- of 17
- Largest fire
- 3,519ha
- Libertador General San Martín · January 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 24° · 85 % · 43 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 23° · 48 % · 40 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 23° · 36 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 26° · 41 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 28° · 41 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 25° · 74 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 29° · 37 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 30° · 41 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Montecarlo 6,725 ha · 3.8 %
- Libertador General San Martín 3,497 ha · 2.4 %
- General Manuel Belgrano 1,755 ha · 0.5 %
- Iguazú 1,727 ha · 0.6 %
- San Ignacio 1,630 ha · 1.0 %
- Candelaria 958 ha · 1.0 %
- Capital 673 ha · 0.7 %
- Guaraní 46 ha · 0.0 %
- Cainguás 23 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Montecarlo6,725 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,519 haLibertador General San MartínJanuary 2022 · 4 days
- 3,365 haMontecarlo16 February 2022 · 5 days
- 1,755 haGeneral Manuel BelgranoAugust 2016 · 4 days
- 1,752 haMontecarlo13 February 2022 · 7 days
- 1,727 haIguazúJanuary 2022 · 8 days
- 1,655 haMontecarloJanuary 2022 · 2 days
- 1,631 haCandelariaNovember 2020 · 4 days
- 1,630 haSan IgnacioNovember 2020 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 12,018 | Libertador General San Martín 3,519 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 3,260 | Candelaria 1,631 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,755 | General Manuel Belgrano 1,755 ha |
All fires in Misiones · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,365 haMontecarlo16 February 2022 · 5 days
- 1,752 haMontecarlo13 February 2022 · 7 days
- 3,519 haLibertador General San MartínJanuary 2022 · 4 days
- 1,655 haMontecarloJanuary 2022 · 2 days
- 1,727 haIguazúJanuary 2022 · 8 days
- 1,630 haSan IgnacioNovember 2020 · 3 days
- 1,631 haCandelariaNovember 2020 · 4 days
- 1,755 haGeneral Manuel BelgranoAugust 2016 · 4 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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