Wildfires in Santa Elena
Santa Elena, Ecuador: 5 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 3 cantons since 2016, burning 1,667 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pedro Carbo in 20 November 2016, with 655 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
- 1,667ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.4%
- 3,838 km²
- fires
- 5
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 3
- Largest fire
- 655ha
- Pedro Carbo · 20 November 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 13 Very low 29° · 75 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 14 Very low 27° · 82 % · 29 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 28° · 82 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low 31° · 68 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low 30° · 66 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 18 Very low 30° · 74 % · 33 km/h
- Thu 19 Very low 31° · 64 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 20 Very low 30° · 74 % · 30 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Santa Elena 1,667 ha · 0.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Santa Elena1,667 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 655 haPedro Carbo20 November 2016 · 8 days
- 469 haPedro CarboNovember 2017 · 1 day
- 400 haJipijapa2 December 2025 · 17 days
- 74 haPedro Carbo4 November 2016 · 5 days
- 68 haGuayaquilNovember 2016 · 8 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 400 | Jipijapa 400 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 469 | Pedro Carbo 469 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 797 | Pedro Carbo 655 ha |
All fires in Santa Elena · 5
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).
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