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Wildfires in Concepción

Concepción, Paraguay: 214 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 10 districts since 2016, burning 810,161 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Carlos in 14 August 2021, with 89,604 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
810,161ha
Since 2016
Of the region
43%
18,640 km²
fires
214
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 10
Largest fire
89,604ha
San Carlos · 14 August 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 33° · 51 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 60 % · 46 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 56 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 46 % · 25 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. Bella Vista 213,392 ha · 54 %
  2. Concepcion 182,916 ha · 26 %
  3. San Carlos 130,209 ha · 67 %
  4. Sgto. Jose Felix Lopez 117,972 ha · 52 %
  5. Yvy Ya´U 76,872 ha · 35 %
  6. San Lazaro 46,201 ha · 39 %
  7. Horqueta 34,522 ha · 16 %
  8. Azotey 6,029 ha · 8.3 %
  9. Loreto 1,556 ha · 1.9 %
  10. Belen 492 ha · 2.5 %

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
2026411,265 San Lazaro 3,957 ha
202522,179 San Lazaro 2,159 ha
202429104,468 Concepcion 18,881 ha
20231635,079 Concepcion 4,853 ha
202237,216 San Lazaro 3,055 ha
202160399,119 San Carlos 89,604 ha
20201120,249 San Carlos 3,759 ha
201940118,939 Bella Vista 14,281 ha
2018410,277 Concepcion 3,987 ha
20173786,987 Sgto. Jose Felix Lopez 8,532 ha
2016814,383 Concepcion 2,507 ha

All fires in Concepción · 214

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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