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Wildfires in Manabí

Manabí, Ecuador: 21 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 23 cantons since 2016, burning 36,584 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sucre in 6 December 2025, with 3,972 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
36,584ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.9%
19,498 km²
fires
21
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 23
Largest fire
3,972ha
Sucre · 6 December 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 33° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 33° · 57 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 76 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 70 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 72 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 61 % · 31 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. San Vicente 8,705 ha · 12 %
  2. Sucre 7,401 ha · 11 %
  3. Jipijapa 6,850 ha · 4.6 %
  4. Chone 6,744 ha · 2.2 %
  5. Paján 3,523 ha · 3.2 %
  6. Tosagua 1,314 ha · 3.5 %
  7. Jama 872 ha · 1.5 %
  8. Rocafuerte 870 ha · 3.1 %
  9. 24 de Mayo 283 ha · 0.5 %
  10. Santa Ana 22 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
20251629,884 Sucre 3,972 ha
202222,523 Sucre 1,279 ha
202011,463 Paján 1,463 ha
201922,714 Chone 1,705 ha

All fires in Manabí · 21

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).