Wildfires in Guayas
Guayas, Ecuador: 12 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 26 cantons since 2016, burning 9,549 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pedro Carbo in 8 December 2025, with 1,286 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
- 9,549ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 15,758 km²
- fires
- 12
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 26
- Largest fire
- 1,286ha
- Pedro Carbo · 8 December 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 34° · 51 % · 24 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 33° · 61 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 34° · 59 % · 25 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 34° · 57 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 33° · 58 % · 23 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 33° · 59 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 60 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Pedro Carbo 5,121 ha · 5.4 %
- Balzar 2,146 ha · 1.8 %
- Colimes 1,120 ha · 1.5 %
- Guayaquil 987 ha · 0.2 %
- Palestina 176 ha · 0.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Pedro Carbo5,121 ha
- 3×Balzar2,146 ha
- 2×Colimes1,120 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,286 haPedro Carbo8 December 2025 · 5 days
- 1,180 haPedro CarboNovember 2017 · 1 day of 1,638 ha in total
- 1,077 haBalzarDecember 2025 · 13 days
- 1,048 haBalzarNovember 2020 · 4 days
- 1,037 haPedro Carbo9 December 2025 · 4 days
- 1,015 haColimesDecember 2025 · 6 days
- 1,003 haPedro Carbo4 November 2016 · 5 days of 1,070 ha in total
- 987 haGuayaquilNovember 2016 · 4 days of 1,048 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | 4,717 | Pedro Carbo 1,286 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 1,077 | Balzar 1,048 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,180 | Pedro Carbo 1,180 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 2,576 | Pedro Carbo 1,003 ha |
All fires in Guayas · 12
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,015 haColimesDecember 2025 · 6 days
- 1,037 haPedro Carbo9 December 2025 · 4 days
- 1,077 haBalzarDecember 2025 · 13 days
- 1,286 haPedro Carbo8 December 2025 · 5 days
- 20 haPalenque6 December 2025 · 6 days of 1,050 ha in total
- 282 haVinces28 November 2025 · 3 days of 1,131 ha in total
- 1,048 haBalzarNovember 2020 · 4 days
- 29 haPajánNovember 2020 · 5 days of 1,482 ha in total
- 1,180 haPedro CarboNovember 2017 · 1 day of 1,638 ha in total
- 987 haGuayaquilNovember 2016 · 4 days of 1,048 ha in total
- 587 haPedro Carbo20 November 2016 · 5 days of 1,233 ha in total
- 1,003 haPedro Carbo4 November 2016 · 5 days of 1,070 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/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).