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Wildfires in Cesar

Cesar, Colombia: 61 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 25 municipalities since 2016, burning 169,096 hectares inside the region. The largest was Valledupar in 14 February 2016, with 9,582 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: 169,096ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 7.4%; 22,779 km²
fires: 61; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 15; of 25
Largest fire: 9,582ha; Valledupar · 14 February 2016
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Sat 24 Very low 29° · 76 % · 23 km/h
Sun 25 Very low 27° · 85 % · 22 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 28° · 85 % · 20 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 28° · 78 % · 17 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 29° · 79 % · 23 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 28° · 76 % · 23 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 28° · 81 % · 26 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

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Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Valledupar 79,566 ha · 19 %
El Copey 19,071 ha · 20 %
Becerrill 14,567 ha · 12 %
Curumaní 14,016 ha · 15 %
Agustín Codazzi 9,570 ha · 5.4 %
La Gloria 8,433 ha · 10 %
El Paso 6,545 ha · 8.0 %
La Jagua De Ibirico 5,744 ha · 7.6 %
La Paz 4,065 ha · 3.8 %
Chiriguaná 2,276 ha · 2.0 %
Chimichagua 2,243 ha · 1.6 %
Pelaya 1,499 ha · 3.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

31×Valledupar79,566 ha
10×Becerrill14,567 ha
8×Agustín Codazzi9,570 ha
7×El Copey19,071 ha
5×El Paso6,545 ha
5×La Jagua De Ibirico5,744 ha
4×Curumaní14,016 ha
4×La Gloria8,433 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	2	9,140	Curumaní 7,552 ha
2025	1	1,724	Valledupar 1,724 ha
2024	3	7,261	El Copey 3,398 ha
2023	3	4,436	Valledupar 1,821 ha
2022	3	6,399	Valledupar 2,478 ha
2021	9	24,595	Valledupar 6,117 ha
2020	10	30,405	Valledupar 5,439 ha
2019	19	46,639	Becerrill 4,527 ha
2018	1	2,748	Valledupar 2,748 ha
2016	10	35,749	Valledupar 9,582 ha

All fires in Cesar · 61

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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