Wildfires in Putumayo
Putumayo, Colombia: 4 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 13 municipalities since 2016, burning 8,037 hectares inside the region. The largest was Puerto Guzmán in 26 January 2023, with 2,494 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
- 8,037ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 26,100 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 2,494ha
- Puerto Guzmán · 26 January 2023
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Very low 34° · 54 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 31° · 69 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 64 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 18 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 31° · 66 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 70 % · 20 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 64 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Puerto Guzmán 7,794 ha · 1.7 %
- Puerto Leguízamo 243 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Puerto Guzmán7,794 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,494 haPuerto Guzmán26 January 2023 · 9 days
- 2,034 haPuerto Guzmán26 January 2023 · 9 days
- 1,981 haPuerto GuzmánFebruary 2017 · 6 days
- 1,528 haPuerto GuzmánJanuary 2016 · 13 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 4,528 | Puerto Guzmán 2,494 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,981 | Puerto Guzmán 1,981 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,528 | Puerto Guzmán 1,528 ha |
All fires in Putumayo · 4
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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