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Wildfires in Loja

Loja, Ecuador: 22 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 15 cantons since 2016, burning 104,609 hectares inside the region. The largest was Catamayo in September 2019, with 18,951 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
104,609ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.5%
11,065 km²
fires
22
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 15
Largest fire
18,951ha
Catamayo · September 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very low 26° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 26° · 60 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 90 % · 26 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. Loja 30,303 ha · 16 %
  2. Paltas 17,967 ha · 15 %
  3. Quilanga 17,868 ha · 75 %
  4. Catamayo 15,024 ha · 23 %
  5. Pindal 9,486 ha · 47 %
  6. Puyango 8,990 ha · 14 %
  7. Saraguro 1,541 ha · 1.4 %
  8. Calvas 1,375 ha · 1.6 %
  9. Celica 1,345 ha · 2.6 %
  10. Espíndola 686 ha · 1.3 %
  11. Gonzanama 24 ha · 0.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202611,410 Loja 1,410 ha
202522,115 Puyango 1,094 ha
2024624,904 Quilanga 14,049 ha
202322,426 Espíndola 1,359 ha
202111,327 Celica 1,327 ha
202012,082 Loja 2,082 ha
2019665,435 Catamayo 18,951 ha
201811,803 Loja 1,803 ha
201623,107 Quilanga 2,095 ha

All fires in Loja · 22

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).