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Wildfires in La Paz

La Paz, Bolivia: 119 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 87 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,015,809 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ixiamas in 15 July 2016, with 43,570 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
1,015,809ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.9%
129,212 km²
fires
119
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 87
Largest fire
43,570ha
Ixiamas · 15 July 2016
Inhabitants
3,183,214
319.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 80 % · 17 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 63 % · 17 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 76 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 51 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 61 % · 34 km/h

Burning now in the region

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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. Ixiamas 11,828 inhabitants 995,840 ha · 27 %
  2. Apolo 18,386 inhabitants 13,430 ha · 0.9 %
  3. Charazani 11,374 inhabitants 3,404 ha · 1.4 %
  4. Palos Blancos 12,643 inhabitants 3,133 ha · 0.8 %
  5. San Buenaventura 4,608 inhabitants 2 ha · 0.0 %
  6. Alto Beni 0 ha · 0.0 %
  7. Teoponte 0 ha · 0.0 %

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
2026958,463 Ixiamas 18,029 ha
2025417,291 Ixiamas 6,465 ha
202422167,353 Ixiamas 29,157 ha
202321187,670 Ixiamas 24,593 ha
2022349,468 Ixiamas 29,126 ha
2021987,191 Ixiamas 20,005 ha
2020758,174 Ixiamas 23,631 ha
201914117,957 Ixiamas 32,083 ha
2018524,295 Ixiamas 7,570 ha
20171082,253 Ixiamas 22,821 ha
201615165,694 Ixiamas 43,570 ha

All fires in La Paz · 119

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).

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