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Wildfires in Meta

Meta, Colombia: 260 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 29 municipalities since 2016, burning 781,333 hectares inside the region. The largest was Puerto Gaitán in 7 January 2016, with 32,962 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
781,333ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.1%
86,011 km²
fires
260
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 29
Largest fire
32,962ha
Puerto Gaitán · 7 January 2016
Inhabitants
631,283
1,237.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 69 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 71 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 68 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 68 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 70 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 75 % · 28 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Puerto Gaitán 41,017 inhabitants 498,651 ha · 29 %
  2. La Macarena 36,781 inhabitants 91,349 ha · 8.4 %
  3. Mapiripán 17,229 inhabitants 83,709 ha · 7.0 %
  4. San Martín 54,417 ha · 9.1 %
  5. Puerto López 35,097 inhabitants 40,076 ha · 5.8 %
  6. Uribe 4,556 ha · 0.7 %
  7. Guamal 3,415 ha · 5.7 %
  8. Puerto Rico 18,626 inhabitants 2,453 ha · 0.7 %
  9. Vistahermosa 25,461 inhabitants 1,703 ha · 0.4 %
  10. Cubarral 1,004 ha · 0.9 %

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
20263776,423 Puerto Gaitán 3,359 ha
20251337,132 Puerto Gaitán 10,176 ha
20241858,338 Puerto Gaitán 10,199 ha
20231245,834 Puerto Gaitán 17,115 ha
202247149,898 La Macarena 20,920 ha
20211637,355 Puerto Gaitán 4,908 ha
202031113,651 Puerto Gaitán 22,668 ha
20192668,617 Puerto Gaitán 8,343 ha
2018510,192 Puerto Gaitán 2,562 ha
20172259,063 Puerto Gaitán 7,275 ha
201633124,831 Puerto Gaitán 32,962 ha

All fires in Meta · 260

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).