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Wildfires in Boquerón

Boquerón, Paraguay: 298 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 3 districts since 2016, burning 739,014 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mariscal Estigarribia in August 2020, with 14,708 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
739,014ha
Since 2016
Of the region
8.3%
88,667 km²
fires
298
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 3
Largest fire
14,708ha
Mariscal Estigarribia · August 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 39° · 33 % · 64 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 44 % · 49 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 49 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 29° · 42 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 29° · 39 % · 30 km/h

Burning now in the region

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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. Mariscal Estigarribia 637,765 ha · 8.8 %
  2. Filadelfia 101,249 ha · 7.1 %

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
20261738,399 Filadelfia 5,176 ha
20251632,633 Mariscal Estigarribia 4,066 ha
20242047,187 Mariscal Estigarribia 6,354 ha
20231648,090 Mariscal Estigarribia 9,532 ha
20222151,462 Mariscal Estigarribia 8,918 ha
20213171,383 Mariscal Estigarribia 6,202 ha
202043109,015 Mariscal Estigarribia 14,708 ha
20193798,041 Mariscal Estigarribia 8,154 ha
20182256,068 Mariscal Estigarribia 4,962 ha
20173895,030 Mariscal Estigarribia 14,033 ha
20163791,707 Mariscal Estigarribia 6,411 ha

All fires in Boquerón · 298

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/Direcion General de Estadica, Encuestas y Censos (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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