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Wildfires in Río Negro

Río Negro, Argentina: 101 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 13 departments since 2016, burning 727,744 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pichi Mahuída in 18 December 2016, with 166,728 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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
727,744ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.5%
205,514 km²
fires
101
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 13
Largest fire
166,728ha
Pichi Mahuída · 18 December 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 High 24° · 33 % · 67 km/h
  2. Wed 4 High 24° · 19 % · 60 km/h
  3. Thu 5 High 24° · 22 % · 55 km/h
  4. Fri 6 High 20° · 23 % · 50 km/h
  5. Sat 7 High 27° · 16 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 8 High 31° · 12 % · 42 km/h
  7. Mon 9 High 33° · 20 % · 43 km/h
  8. Tue 10 High 35° · 10 % · 50 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Pichi Mahuída 286,705 ha · 18 %
  2. Conesa 183,516 ha · 19 %
  3. Avellaneda 138,658 ha · 7.0 %
  4. Bariloche 40,864 ha · 7.5 %
  5. Adolfo Alsina 34,122 ha · 3.8 %
  6. San Antonio 16,264 ha · 1.1 %
  7. Ñorquincó 9,428 ha · 1.1 %
  8. Valcheta 6,565 ha · 0.3 %
  9. 9 de Julio 4,026 ha · 0.2 %
  10. 25 de Mayo 3,875 ha · 0.1 %
  11. El Cuy 2,221 ha · 0.1 %
  12. General Roca 1,501 ha · 0.1 %

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
202525,784 Bariloche 3,898 ha
2024420,694 Bariloche 15,075 ha
2023725,007 Pichi Mahuída 5,751 ha
202239,433 Avellaneda 5,402 ha
2021629,953 Bariloche 9,078 ha
20201034,072 San Antonio 5,692 ha
20191049,671 Avellaneda 11,240 ha
2018928,868 Conesa 5,523 ha
201724157,902 Avellaneda 38,079 ha
201626366,360 Pichi Mahuída 166,728 ha

All fires in Río Negro · 101

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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