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- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 62 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 28° · 90 % · 16 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 29° · 91 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 32° · 62 % · 19 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 66 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 32° · 62 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 31° · 67 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 32° · 89 % · 38 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- San José del Guaviare 68,878 inhabitants 60,616 ha · 3.6 %
- Calamar 9,091 inhabitants 46,327 ha · 3.4 %
- El Retorno 24,562 inhabitants 22,307 ha · 1.8 %
- 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.
- 22×Calamar46,327 ha
- 21×San José del Guaviare60,616 ha
- 13×El Retorno22,307 ha
- 3×Miraflores4,904 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 15,832 haSan José del Guaviare22 January 2022 · 14 days
- 5,534 haSan José del Guaviare20 February 2019 · 13 days
- 5,443 haSan José del Guaviare22 January 2022 · 13 days
- 5,324 haCalamar27 January 2022 · 8 days
- 5,164 haCalamar26 January 2022 · 10 days
- 4,542 haCalamar6 February 2026 · 8 days
- 4,492 haCalamar4 February 2026 · 10 days
- 3,314 haEl Retorno22 January 2022 · 14 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 29,468 | Calamar 4,542 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 668 | La Macarena 668 ha |
| 2024 | 4 | 6,780 | San José del Guaviare 2,498 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 3,977 | Calamar 2,424 ha |
| 2022 | 18 | 60,507 | San José del Guaviare 15,832 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 3,791 | San José del Guaviare 2,164 ha |
| 2019 | 10 | 25,769 | San José del Guaviare 5,534 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,139 | Calamar 1,139 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 2,054 | 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.
- 2,748 haCalamar26 February 2026 · 11 days of 3,824 ha in total
- 2,701 haMirafloresFebruary 2026 · 4 days
- 1,529 haEl Retorno9 February 2026 · 5 days
- 2,470 haSan José del Guaviare8 February 2026 · 5 days
- 1,919 haSan José del Guaviare7 February 2026 · 7 days
- 2,633 haSan José del Guaviare7 February 2026 · 6 days
- 1,914 haEl Retorno7 February 2026 · 7 days
- 2,084 haEl Retorno7 February 2026 · 7 days
- 4,542 haCalamar6 February 2026 · 8 days
- 2,435 haCalamar6 February 2026 · 8 days
- 4,492 haCalamar4 February 2026 · 10 days
- 668 haLa MacarenaFebruary 2025 · 6 days of 1,529 ha in total
- 2,498 haSan José del GuaviareFebruary 2024 · 4 days
- 2,248 haCalamarFebruary 2024 · 6 days
- 1,885 haLa Macarena19 February 2024 · 15 days of 2,484 ha in total
- 149 haLa Macarena19 February 2024 · 7 days of 1,798 ha in total
- 1,553 haCalamarFebruary 2023 · 9 days
- 2,424 haCalamarJanuary 2023 · 6 days
- 2,358 haCalamar18 February 2022 · 6 days
- 3,032 haEl Retorno15 February 2022 · 9 days
- 1,988 haCalamar15 February 2022 · 9 days
- 1,635 haEl Retorno12 February 2022 · 11 days
- 2,204 haEl Retorno11 February 2022 · 13 days
- 1,562 haCalamar28 January 2022 · 7 days
- 418 haLa Macarena27 January 2022 · 9 days of 10,804 ha in total
- 5,324 haCalamar27 January 2022 · 8 days
- 1,885 haEl Retorno27 January 2022 · 7 days
- 5,164 haCalamar26 January 2022 · 10 days
- 1,632 haSan José del Guaviare25 January 2022 · 10 days
- 2,911 haEl Retorno25 January 2022 · 10 days
- 2,098 haSan José del Guaviare24 January 2022 · 10 days
- 1,555 haSan José del Guaviare24 January 2022 · 12 days
- 2,153 haSan José del Guaviare23 January 2022 · 13 days
- 5,443 haSan José del Guaviare22 January 2022 · 13 days
- 3,314 haEl Retorno22 January 2022 · 14 days
- 15,832 haSan José del Guaviare22 January 2022 · 14 days
- 2,164 haSan José del Guaviare15 February 2020 · 7 days
- 1,627 haSan José del Guaviare13 February 2020 · 9 days
- 1,915 haSan José del Guaviare26 February 2019 · 4 days
- 1,771 haSan José del Guaviare24 February 2019 · 9 days
- 1,801 haEl Retorno24 February 2019 · 7 days
- 1,607 haSan José del Guaviare24 February 2019 · 6 days
- 3,080 haCalamar21 February 2019 · 12 days
- 3,258 haCalamar21 February 2019 · 13 days
- 5,534 haSan José del Guaviare20 February 2019 · 13 days
- 1,970 haEl Retorno20 February 2019 · 11 days
- 2,420 haSan José del Guaviare19 February 2019 · 9 days
- 2,413 haSan José del Guaviare19 February 2019 · 12 days
- 1,139 haCalamarFebruary 2017 · 9 days of 2,423 ha in total
- 2,054 haSan José del GuaviareJanuary 2016 · 4 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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