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Wildfires in Cañar

Cañar, Ecuador: one fire with a page has entered 1 of its 7 cantons since 2016, burning 1,590 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cañar in September 2018, with 1,590 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
1,590ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.5%
3,258 km²
fires
1
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
1
of 7
Largest fire
1,590ha
Cañar · September 2018
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 16° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 78 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 73 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 89 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 84 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 92 % · 40 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. Cañar 1,590 ha · 0.9 %

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
201811,590 Cañar 1,590 ha

All fires in Cañar · 1

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/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).