Wildfires in Neuquén
Neuquén, Argentina: 21 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 16 departments since 2016, burning 112,195 hectares inside the region. The largest was Huiliches in January 2025, with 25,264 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).
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
- 112,195ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.2%
- 97,379 km²
- fires
- 21
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 7
- of 16
- Largest fire
- 25,264ha
- Huiliches · January 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 12 High 31° · 9 % · 44 km/h
- Fri 13 High 27° · 14 % · 37 km/h
- Sat 14 High 26° · 23 % · 47 km/h
- Sun 15 Moderate 24° · 42 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 16 Moderate 22° · 31 % · 53 km/h
- Tue 17 Moderate 23° · 33 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 18 High 22° · 24 % · 49 km/h
- Thu 19 Moderate 22° · 23 % · 50 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Collón Curá 32,879 ha · 5.7 %
- Huiliches 27,914 ha · 6.9 %
- Ñorquín 24,396 ha · 4.4 %
- Picunches 20,522 ha · 3.4 %
- Aluminé 5,803 ha · 1.2 %
- Confluencia 416 ha · 0.1 %
- Loncopué 265 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,500 ha or more) since 2016.
- 7×Picunches20,522 ha
- 5×Collón Curá32,879 ha
- 5×Ñorquín24,396 ha
- 3×Huiliches27,914 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 25,264 haHuilichesJanuary 2025 · 20 days
- 11,531 haCollón Curá3 February 2016 · 15 days
- 11,060 haÑorquínDecember 2020 · 4 days
- 8,892 haCollón Curá3 February 2016 · 3 days
- 8,195 haPicunchesApril 2020 · 9 days
- 7,660 haCollón Curá1 April 2019 · 3 days
- 6,945 haÑorquínDecember 2019 · 5 days
- 6,863 haAluminéDecember 2021 · 15 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 | 3 | 30,295 | Huiliches 25,264 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,290 | Picunches 2,290 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 8,387 | Aluminé 6,863 ha |
| 2020 | 5 | 24,728 | Ñorquín 11,060 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 17,674 | Collón Curá 7,660 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 2,323 | Picunches 1,907 ha |
| 2016 | 5 | 26,500 | Collón Curá 11,531 ha |
All fires in Neuquén · 21
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,441 haÑorquínNovember 2025 · 3 days
- 1,589 haHuilichesFebruary 2025 · 19 days
- 25,264 haHuilichesJanuary 2025 · 20 days
- 2,290 haPicunchesMarch 2024 · 3 days
- 6,863 haAluminéDecember 2021 · 15 days
- 1,524 haPicunchesFebruary 2021 · 2 days
- 11,060 haÑorquínDecember 2020 · 4 days
- 1,708 haÑorquínNovember 2020 · 9 days
- 1,829 haPicunchesAugust 2020 · 4 days
- 8,195 haPicunchesApril 2020 · 9 days
- 1,935 haPicunchesJanuary 2020 · 4 days
- 6,945 haÑorquínDecember 2019 · 5 days
- 3,069 haCollón Curá2 April 2019 · 2 days
- 7,660 haCollón Curá1 April 2019 · 3 days
- 416 haGeneral RocaAugust 2017 · 2 days
- 1,907 haPicunchesJanuary 2017 · 2 days
- 1,507 haÑorquínDecember 2016 · 4 days
- 2,843 haPicunchesFebruary 2016 · 2 days
- 11,531 haCollón Curá3 February 2016 · 15 days
- 8,892 haCollón Curá3 February 2016 · 3 days
- 1,727 haCollón CuráJanuary 2016 · 3 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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