Wildfires in CENTRAL
CENTRAL, Paraguay: 29 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 19 districts since 2016, burning 77,515 hectares inside the region. The largest was Villeta in 20 August 2020, with 15,749 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 77,515ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 32%
- 2,422 km²
- fires
- 29
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 19
- Largest fire
- 15,749ha
- Villeta · 20 August 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 34° · 56 % · 45 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 30° · 73 % · 46 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 23° · 54 % · 53 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 24° · 43 % · 30 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 24° · 48 % · 24 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 27° · 53 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 23° · 67 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 27° · 50 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Villeta 43,064 ha · 49 %
- Nueva Italia 34,451 ha · 93 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 21×Nueva Italia34,451 ha
- 18×Villeta43,064 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 15,749 haVilleta20 August 2020 · 13 days of 22,209 ha in total
- 13,315 haVilletaMarch 2020 · 8 days
- 5,000 haVilleta14 February 2022 · 7 days
- 3,729 haVilleta25 August 2020 · 8 days
- 3,507 haVilletaApril 2020 · 8 days
- 2,962 haNueva Italia4 July 2023 · 5 days
- 2,541 haNueva Italia22 July 2023 · 3 days
- 2,410 haVilletaMarch 2025 · 6 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,553 | Villeta 1,553 ha |
| 2025 | 5 | 8,796 | Villeta 2,410 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 973 | Nueva Italia 973 ha |
| 2023 | 2 | 5,503 | Nueva Italia 2,962 ha |
| 2022 | 4 | 9,589 | Villeta 5,000 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 1,060 | Villa Oliva 1,048 ha |
| 2020 | 10 | 42,781 | Villeta 15,749 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,557 | Villeta 1,557 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 2,104 | Villeta 2,104 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 3,599 | Villeta 2,080 ha |
All fires in CENTRAL · 29
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,553 haVilletaFebruary 2026 · 6 days
- 1,855 haNueva ItaliaMay 2025 · 3 days
- 1,722 haVilletaApril 2025 · 13 days
- 432 haQuiindyApril 2025 · 4 days of 1,944 ha in total
- 2,410 haVilletaMarch 2025 · 6 days
- 2,377 haVilletaFebruary 2025 · 9 days
- 973 haNueva ItaliaAugust 2024 · 2 days of 1,503 ha in total
- 2,541 haNueva Italia22 July 2023 · 3 days
- 2,962 haNueva Italia4 July 2023 · 5 days
- 5,000 haVilleta14 February 2022 · 7 days
- 258 haVilla OlivaFebruary 2022 · 29 days of 16,508 ha in total
- 2,335 haVilleta8 February 2022 · 9 days
- 1,996 haVilletaJanuary 2022 · 6 days
- 1,048 haVilla OlivaDecember 2021 · 44 days of 58,707 ha in total
- 12 haVilla Oliva27 July 2021 · 7 days of 4,141 ha in total
- 977 haCarapeguaSeptember 2020 · 19 days of 3,247 ha in total
- 1,813 haVilletaSeptember 2020 · 3 days
- 3,729 haVilleta25 August 2020 · 8 days
- 15,749 haVilleta20 August 2020 · 13 days of 22,209 ha in total
- 447 haCarapeguaAugust 2020 · 4 days of 2,793 ha in total
- 204 haVilla OlivaJuly 2020 · 14 days of 21,230 ha in total
- 1,477 haCarapeguaJuly 2020 · 6 days of 3,078 ha in total
- 3,507 haVilletaApril 2020 · 8 days
- 13,315 haVilletaMarch 2020 · 8 days
- 1,564 haVilletaFebruary 2020 · 20 days
- 1,557 haVilletaSeptember 2019 · 3 days
- 2,104 haVilletaAugust 2018 · 1 day
- 1,519 haNueva ItaliaAugust 2017 · 3 days of 1,901 ha in total
- 2,080 haVilletaJuly 2017 · 5 days
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).