Wildfires in Las Tunas
Las Tunas, Cuba: 14 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 8 municipalities since 2016, burning 14,479 hectares inside the region. The largest was Puerto Padre in May 2021, with 1,675 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 14,479ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.2%
- 6,690 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 1,675ha
- Puerto Padre · May 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 27° · 75 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 29° · 73 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 29° · 65 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 30° · 64 % · 33 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 60 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 31° · 60 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 61 % · 40 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 31° · 73 % · 39 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Puerto Padre 7,044 ha · 5.9 %
- Amancio 6,507 ha · 7.6 %
- Manatí 842 ha · 0.8 %
- Majibacoa 86 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 7×Amancio6,507 ha
- 6×Puerto Padre7,044 ha
- 2×Manatí842 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,675 haPuerto PadreMay 2021 · 2 days
- 1,555 haAmancio9 February 2026 · 7 days
- 1,454 haPuerto Padre10 April 2020 · 3 days
- 1,336 haPuerto PadreMay 2025 · 2 days
- 1,292 haAmancioFebruary 2021 · 4 days
- 1,209 haPuerto PadreMarch 2025 · 3 days
- 1,200 haPuerto Padre7 April 2020 · 3 days
- 1,110 haAmancioMarch 2020 · 5 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 | 2 | 2,587 | Amancio 1,555 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 2,545 | Puerto Padre 1,336 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,073 | Amancio 1,073 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 2,967 | Puerto Padre 1,675 ha |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,776 | Puerto Padre 1,454 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 252 | Santa Cruz del Sur 166 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 279 | Santa Cruz del Sur 279 ha |
All fires in Las Tunas · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,555 haAmancio9 February 2026 · 7 days
- 1,032 haAmancio8 February 2026 · 12 days
- 1,336 haPuerto PadreMay 2025 · 2 days
- 1,209 haPuerto PadreMarch 2025 · 3 days
- 1,073 haAmancioMay 2024 · 1 day
- 1,675 haPuerto PadreMay 2021 · 2 days
- 1,292 haAmancioFebruary 2021 · 4 days
- 1,454 haPuerto Padre10 April 2020 · 3 days
- 1,200 haPuerto Padre7 April 2020 · 3 days
- 1,110 haAmancioMarch 2020 · 5 days
- 1,013 haManatíFebruary 2020 · 2 days
- 166 haSanta Cruz del SurMarch 2017 · 4 days of 1,373 ha in total
- 86 haRío CautoFebruary 2017 · 2 days of 1,324 ha in total
- 279 haSanta Cruz del SurFebruary 2016 · 2 days of 1,090 ha in total
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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