Wildfires in Santander
Santander, Colombia: 3 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 87 municipalities since 2016, burning 6,956 hectares inside the region. The largest was Barrancabermeja in February 2024, with 3,060 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
- 6,956ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 30,709 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 87
- Largest fire
- 3,060ha
- Barrancabermeja · February 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 34° · 52 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 30° · 75 % · 17 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 30° · 69 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 30° · 67 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 29° · 66 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 30° · 63 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 30° · 63 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 30° · 65 % · 20 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Puerto Wilches 3,913 ha · 2.6 %
- Barrancabermeja 3,043 ha · 2.3 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Puerto Wilches3,913 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,060 haBarrancabermejaFebruary 2024 · 20 days
- 2,343 haPuerto WilchesMarch 2016 · 12 days
- 1,554 haPuerto WilchesFebruary 2024 · 9 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 4,613 | Barrancabermeja 3,060 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 2,343 | Puerto Wilches 2,343 ha |
All fires in Santander · 3
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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