Wildfires in Chocó
Chocó, Colombia: 8 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 29 municipalities since 2016, burning 24,371 hectares inside the region. The largest was Unguía in 8 March 2016, with 5,015 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
- 24,371ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.5%
- 48,198 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 29
- Largest fire
- 5,015ha
- Unguía · 8 March 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 31° · 67 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 31° · 74 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 30° · 83 % · 19 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 30° · 92 % · 18 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 32° · 59 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 34° · 57 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 62 % · 33 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 5,015 haUnguía8 March 2016 · 8 days of 9,978 ha in total
- 4,476 haUnguíaMarch 2019 · 4 days
- 3,656 haRiosucio5 April 2016 · 14 days
- 3,219 haUnguía25 March 2016 · 10 days of 3,479 ha in total
- 2,592 haRiosucio30 March 2016 · 20 days
- 2,106 haRiosucio31 March 2016 · 7 days
- 1,742 haRiosucio13 April 2016 · 6 days
- 1,565 haRiosucioMarch 2019 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Chocó · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 4,476 haUnguíaMarch 2019 · 4 days
- 1,565 haRiosucioMarch 2019 · 2 days
- 1,742 haRiosucio13 April 2016 · 6 days
- 3,656 haRiosucio5 April 2016 · 14 days
- 2,106 haRiosucio31 March 2016 · 7 days
- 2,592 haRiosucio30 March 2016 · 20 days
- 3,219 haUnguía25 March 2016 · 10 days of 3,479 ha in total
- 5,015 haUnguía8 March 2016 · 8 days of 9,978 ha in total
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).