Wildfires in Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi, Ecuador: 3 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 7 cantons since 2016, burning 1,565 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sigchos in September 2024, with 1,121 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
- 1,565ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 6,057 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 1,121ha
- Sigchos · September 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 14° · 67 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 15° · 61 % · 29 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 15° · 65 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 15° · 52 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 16° · 51 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 15° · 55 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 14° · 63 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Sigchos1,467 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,121 haSigchosSeptember 2024 · 11 days
- 375 haMejiaSeptember 2024 · 10 days of 2,920 ha in total
- 69 haTenaDecember 2025 · 3 days of 1,014 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Cotopaxi · 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/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).