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Wildfires in Cochabamba

Cochabamba, Bolivia: 39 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 47 municipalities since 2016, burning 234,256 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chimoré in September 2024, with 21,009 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
234,256ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.3%
54,756 km²
fires
39
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 47
Largest fire
21,009ha
Chimoré · September 2024
Inhabitants
2,866,145
81.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 21° · 69 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 80 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 91 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 96 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 17° · 81 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 93 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 89 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 97 % · 31 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. Villa Tunari 334,685 inhabitants 157,175 ha · 14 %
  2. Chimoré 27,521 inhabitants 67,320 ha · 24 %
  3. Pojo 11,865 inhabitants 5,211 ha · 2.2 %
  4. Pocona 12,258 inhabitants 4,434 ha · 4.8 %
  5. Tiraque 45,647 inhabitants 117 ha · 0.1 %

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
202614,434 Pocona 4,434 ha
2025211,940 Villa Tunari 7,447 ha
2024441,150 Chimoré 21,009 ha
20231049,635 Chimoré 12,652 ha
2022431,649 Villa Tunari 14,023 ha
202117,699 Loreto 7,699 ha
2020413,790 Villa Tunari 5,950 ha
2019625,013 Villa Tunari 6,674 ha
2018110,594 Villa Tunari 10,594 ha
201728,800 Pojo 5,211 ha
2016429,552 Chimoré 11,405 ha

All fires in Cochabamba · 39

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/GeoBolivia, Derived from ADM3 layer (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).