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Wildfires in San Luis

San Luis, Argentina: 155 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 9 departments since 2016, burning 625,354 hectares inside the region. The largest was Libertador General San Martín in 18 September 2024, with 49,785 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 11).

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
625,354ha
Since 2016
Of the region
8.1%
77,196 km²
fires
155
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 9
Largest fire
49,785ha
Libertador General San Martín · 18 September 2024
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Low 27° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 25° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 52 % · 37 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 22° · 28 % · 40 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 28° · 33 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 17° · 46 % · 47 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 21° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 25° · 21 % · 29 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. Gobernador Dupuy 180,099 ha · 9.8 %
  2. Libertador General San Martín 98,091 ha · 28 %
  3. La Capital 70,344 ha · 5.2 %
  4. Chacabuco 59,844 ha · 25 %
  5. Coronel Pringles 57,189 ha · 15 %
  6. General Pedernera 56,732 ha · 3.8 %
  7. Junín 45,047 ha · 17 %
  8. Belgrano 39,964 ha · 4.9 %
  9. Ayacucho 18,043 ha · 2.2 %

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
202669,862 La Capital 2,626 ha
2025717,510 Gobernador Dupuy 5,491 ha
2024571,711 Libertador General San Martín 49,785 ha
20231648,531 Gobernador Dupuy 7,915 ha
20222282,275 Gobernador Dupuy 16,844 ha
2021838,715 Gobernador Dupuy 9,935 ha
202023136,510 Chacabuco 30,623 ha
201934,806 General Pedernera 2,195 ha
20181861,963 La Capital 17,144 ha
201732103,692 Gobernador Dupuy 8,272 ha
20161549,778 La Capital 10,567 ha

All fires in San Luis · 155

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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