Wildfires in Imbabura
Imbabura, Ecuador: 9 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 7 cantons since 2016, burning 15,949 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Miguel de Urcuquí in August 2026, with 2,792 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
- 15,949ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.3%
- 4,819 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 2,792ha
- San Miguel de Urcuquí · August 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very low 17° · 71 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 16° · 84 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 16° · 78 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 15° · 96 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 17° · 76 % · 33 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 20° · 59 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 21° · 57 % · 35 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 19° · 76 % · 34 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Ibarra 5,847 ha · 5.3 %
- Cotacachi 5,497 ha · 3.2 %
- San Miguel de Urcuquí 4,227 ha · 5.5 %
- Pimampiro 378 ha · 0.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×San Miguel de Urcuquí4,227 ha
- 4×Ibarra5,847 ha
- 4×Cotacachi5,497 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,792 haSan Miguel de UrcuquíAugust 2026 · 6 days of 3,014 ha in total
- 2,495 haSan Miguel de UrcuquíDecember 2025 · 6 days
- 2,446 haIbarraJuly 2026 · 7 days of 2,635 ha in total
- 1,655 haIbarra6 September 2026 · 8 days
- 1,594 haCotacachiAugust 2025 · 3 days
- 1,381 haIbarra11 September 2026 · 8 days
- 1,212 haCotacachiSeptember 2019 · 9 days
- 1,209 haCotacachiAugust 2026 · 4 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 | 5 | 9,483 | San Miguel de Urcuquí 2,792 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 4,089 | San Miguel de Urcuquí 2,495 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,212 | Cotacachi 1,212 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,165 | Pimampiro 1,165 ha |
All fires in Imbabura · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,381 haIbarra11 September 2026 · 8 days
- 1,655 haIbarra6 September 2026 · 8 days
- 1,209 haCotacachiAugust 2026 · 4 days
- 2,792 haSan Miguel de UrcuquíAugust 2026 · 6 days of 3,014 ha in total
- 2,446 haIbarraJuly 2026 · 7 days of 2,635 ha in total
- 2,495 haSan Miguel de UrcuquíDecember 2025 · 6 days
- 1,594 haCotacachiAugust 2025 · 3 days
- 1,212 haCotacachiSeptember 2019 · 9 days
- 1,165 haPimampiroJuly 2017 · 6 days
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).
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