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Wildfires in Pichincha

Pichincha, Ecuador: 10 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 8 cantons since 2016, burning 15,091 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mejia in September 2024, with 2,565 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
15,091ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.6%
9,698 km²
fires
10
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 8
Largest fire
2,565ha
Mejia · September 2024
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 20° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 50 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 45 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 51 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 58 % · 34 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Quito 6,420 ha · 1.5 %
  2. Cayambe 4,796 ha · 4.0 %
  3. Mejia 3,874 ha · 2.6 %

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
202644,884 Quito 1,308 ha
20251733 El Chaco 733 ha
202412,565 Mejia 2,565 ha
202035,113 Cayambe 2,040 ha
201811,796 Quito 1,796 ha

All fires in Pichincha · 10

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).