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Wildfires in Tolima

Tolima, Colombia: 18 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 47 municipalities since 2016, burning 40,472 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ortega in August 2026, with 6,572 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
40,472ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.7%
24,283 km²
fires
18
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
15
of 47
Largest fire
6,572ha
Ortega · August 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very low 32° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 34° · 42 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 69 % · 21 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. Ortega 9,707 ha · 10 %
  2. San Luis 5,628 ha · 14 %
  3. Chaparral 5,582 ha · 2.6 %
  4. Natagaima 3,980 ha · 4.6 %
  5. Guamo 3,559 ha · 7.0 %
  6. Ataco 2,423 ha · 2.4 %
  7. Prado 1,827 ha · 4.3 %
  8. Coello 1,782 ha · 5.2 %
  9. Carmen De Apicala 1,704 ha · 8.9 %
  10. Coyaima 1,271 ha · 1.9 %
  11. Rovira 990 ha · 1.3 %
  12. Cunday 936 ha · 1.8 %

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
20261330,877 Ortega 6,572 ha
202423,739 Natagaima 3,729 ha
201935,856 San Luis 2,652 ha

All fires in Tolima · 18

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).