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Wildfires in Guaviare

Guaviare, Colombia: 50 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 municipalities since 2016, burning 134,154 hectares inside the region. The largest was San José del Guaviare in 22 January 2022, with 15,832 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
134,154ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.4%
55,826 km²
fires
50
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
15,832ha
San José del Guaviare · 22 January 2022
Inhabitants
102,531
1,308.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 90 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 91 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 89 % · 38 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. San José del Guaviare 68,878 inhabitants 60,616 ha · 3.6 %
  2. Calamar 9,091 inhabitants 46,327 ha · 3.4 %
  3. El Retorno 24,562 inhabitants 22,307 ha · 1.8 %
  4. Miraflores 4,904 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
20261129,468 Calamar 4,542 ha
20251668 La Macarena 668 ha
202446,780 San José del Guaviare 2,498 ha
202323,977 Calamar 2,424 ha
20221860,507 San José del Guaviare 15,832 ha
202023,791 San José del Guaviare 2,164 ha
20191025,769 San José del Guaviare 5,534 ha
201711,139 Calamar 1,139 ha
201612,054 San José del Guaviare 2,054 ha

All fires in Guaviare · 50

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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