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Wildfires in Salta

Salta, Argentina: 232 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 22 departments since 2016, burning 749,122 hectares inside the region. The largest was General José de San Martín in 22 October 2022, with 78,883 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
749,122ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.8%
156,021 km²
fires
232
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 22
Largest fire
78,883ha
General José de San Martín · 22 October 2022
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 78 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 6° · 86 % · 40 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 59 % · 46 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 67 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 8° · 93 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 8° · 89 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 10° · 86 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 76 % · 34 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. General José de San Martín 234,877 ha · 15 %
  2. Orán 199,218 ha · 17 %
  3. Anta 183,944 ha · 8.1 %
  4. Rivadavia 56,025 ha · 2.1 %
  5. Metán 35,293 ha · 6.7 %
  6. Rosario de la Frontera 20,105 ha · 3.7 %
  7. La Viña 5,883 ha · 2.9 %
  8. Iruya 3,529 ha · 1.0 %
  9. Guachipas 3,146 ha · 1.1 %
  10. Rosario de Lerma 2,292 ha · 0.4 %
  11. San Carlos 1,973 ha · 0.4 %
  12. Cafayate 1,777 ha · 1.1 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 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
202623,434 Iruya 1,863 ha
20252366,007 Orán 7,295 ha
2024716,999 Anta 5,618 ha
20231127,493 General José de San Martín 6,511 ha
202251279,810 General José de San Martín 78,883 ha
20211537,873 Anta 5,528 ha
202039118,889 Orán 11,365 ha
20192258,562 Anta 5,504 ha
20181228,814 Orán 4,548 ha
20172349,888 Anta 4,372 ha
20162761,353 Rivadavia 6,012 ha

All fires in Salta · 232

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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