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Wildfires in Arauca

Arauca, Colombia: 107 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 7 municipalities since 2016, burning 355,145 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cravo Norte in 19 March 2026, with 23,287 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
355,145ha
Since 2016
Of the region
15%
23,900 km²
fires
107
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 7
Largest fire
23,287ha
Cravo Norte · 19 March 2026
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 31° · 63 % · 15 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 66 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 64 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 72 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 77 % · 25 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. Cravo Norte 244,415 ha · 47 %
  2. Arauca 83,196 ha · 14 %
  3. Arauquita 25,519 ha · 8.3 %
  4. Tame 2,015 ha · 0.4 %

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
2026747,257 Cravo Norte 23,287 ha
2025729,605 Cravo Norte 12,706 ha
2024831,145 Cravo Norte 7,407 ha
2023510,336 Cravo Norte 2,560 ha
20221332,585 Cravo Norte 3,928 ha
202111,768 Arauca 1,768 ha
20201855,747 Cravo Norte 9,641 ha
20191749,085 Cravo Norte 6,287 ha
20181228,384 Arauca 3,644 ha
201737,842 Cravo Norte 4,128 ha
20161661,391 Cravo Norte 11,910 ha

All fires in Arauca · 107

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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