Wildfires in Bolívar
Bolívar, Colombia: 20 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 46 municipalities since 2016, burning 76,319 hectares inside the region. The largest was Arenal in March 2016, with 28,526 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
- 76,319ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.8%
- 26,867 km²
- fires
- 20
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 12
- of 46
- Largest fire
- 28,526ha
- Arenal · March 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 6 Very low 32° · 59 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 30° · 71 % · 15 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 33° · 63 % · 16 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 33° · 67 % · 19 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 33° · 64 % · 24 km/h
- Thu 12 Very low 33° · 66 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 13 Very low 32° · 67 % · 30 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Morales 19,624 ha · 14 %
- Río Viejo 19,021 ha · 22 %
- Norosí 17,522 ha · 42 %
- Arenal 10,388 ha · 22 %
- Simití 3,297 ha · 2.4 %
- San Martín de Loba 2,517 ha · 5.5 %
- San Pablo 1,873 ha · 0.9 %
- El Peñón 1,611 ha · 5.0 %
- Barranco De Loba 212 ha · 0.5 %
- Regidor 135 ha · 0.7 %
- Tiquiso 85 ha · 0.1 %
- Santa Rosa Del Sur 33 ha · 0.0 %
Largest recorded fires
- 28,526 haArenalMarch 2016 · 31 days
- 5,064 haArenalMarch 2020 · 14 days
- 4,475 haMorales7 March 2016 · 20 days
- 3,649 haMorales26 March 2020 · 6 days
- 3,527 haMoralesFebruary 2020 · 17 days
- 2,973 haArenalFebruary 2019 · 6 days
- 2,945 haSan Martín de Loba19 March 2016 · 13 days
- 2,901 haRío ViejoMarch 2019 · 10 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Bolívar · 20
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,032 haArenalFebruary 2021 · 19 days
- 3,649 haMorales26 March 2020 · 6 days
- 1,996 haMorales24 March 2020 · 8 days
- 5,064 haArenalMarch 2020 · 14 days
- 1,710 haSan PabloMarch 2020 · 8 days
- 2,874 haSimitíMarch 2020 · 7 days
- 1,679 haNorosíFebruary 2020 · 12 days
- 3,527 haMoralesFebruary 2020 · 17 days
- 2,901 haRío ViejoMarch 2019 · 10 days
- 1,914 haRío ViejoFebruary 2019 · 8 days
- 2,973 haArenalFebruary 2019 · 6 days
- 1,834 haMorales22 March 2016 · 11 days
- 1,760 haMorales22 March 2016 · 6 days
- 2,945 haSan Martín de Loba19 March 2016 · 13 days
- 2,225 haSan Martín de Loba10 March 2016 · 15 days
- 4,475 haMorales7 March 2016 · 20 days
- 183 haRemediosMarch 2016 · 21 days
- 28,526 haArenalMarch 2016 · 31 days
- 1,611 haEl PeñónFebruary 2016 · 11 days
- 2,441 haMoralesFebruary 2016 · 16 days
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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