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Wildfires in Ñeembucú

Ñeembucú, Paraguay: 71 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 16 districts since 2016, burning 258,497 hectares inside the region. The largest was Villa Oliva in December 2021, with 50,390 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
258,497ha
Since 2016
Of the region
22%
11,739 km²
fires
71
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 16
Largest fire
50,390ha
Villa Oliva · December 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 69 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 65 % · 42 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 82 % · 58 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 25° · 43 % · 52 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 23° · 48 % · 35 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Villa Oliva 162,612 ha · 1.0×
  2. Villa Franca 28,925 ha · 19 %
  3. Tacuaras 17,356 ha · 9.6 %
  4. Cerrito 14,592 ha · 17 %
  5. San Juan Bautista De Ñeembucu 12,560 ha · 9.4 %
  6. Villalbin 8,258 ha · 20 %
  7. Los Laureles 7,234 ha · 8.6 %
  8. Desmochados 3,232 ha · 11 %
  9. Guazu Cua 1,908 ha · 2.2 %
  10. Mayor Martinez 1,633 ha · 4.2 %
  11. Pilar 187 ha · 0.7 %

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
2025610,267 Villa Oliva 3,547 ha
202423,540 San Juan Bautista De Ñeembucu 1,956 ha
20231127,220 Villalbin 5,178 ha
20222048,955 Villa Oliva 8,090 ha
2021666,265 Villa Oliva 50,390 ha
20201984,021 Villa Oliva 18,297 ha
2018515,187 Villa Oliva 6,696 ha
201711,510 Villa Oliva 1,510 ha
201611,532 Villa Franca 1,532 ha

All fires in Ñeembucú · 71

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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