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Wildfires in Amazonas

Amazonas, Peru: 11 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 7 provinces since 2016, burning 16,934 hectares inside the region. The largest was Condorcanqui in 18 September 2019, with 2,766 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: 16,934ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 0.4%; 39,896 km²
fires: 11; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 6; of 7
Largest fire: 2,766ha; Condorcanqui · 18 September 2019
Inhabitants: 42,802; 395.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Very low 26° · 92 % · 23 km/h
Sat 24 Very low 31° · 57 % · 23 km/h
Sun 25 Very low 33° · 49 % · 21 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 32° · 54 % · 25 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 31° · 63 % · 27 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 29° · 71 % · 21 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 29° · 88 % · 23 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

Condorcanqui 22,703 inhabitants 6,033 ha · 0.3 %
Luya 1,322 inhabitants 4,845 ha · 1.5 %
Chachapoyas 250 inhabitants 4,091 ha · 1.4 %
Utcubamba 3,089 inhabitants 1,329 ha · 0.3 %
Rodriguez de Mendoza 3,151 inhabitants 529 ha · 0.2 %
Bongara 6,184 inhabitants 107 ha · 0.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

5×Luya4,845 ha
5×Chachapoyas4,091 ha
3×Condorcanqui6,033 ha
3×Bongara107 ha
2×Utcubamba1,329 ha
2×Rodriguez de Mendoza529 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2025	3	3,451	Chachapoyas 1,384 ha
2024	3	5,301	Luya 2,361 ha
2022	1	1,131	Utcubamba 1,131 ha
2020	1	1,018	Chachapoyas 1,018 ha
2019	3	6,033	Condorcanqui 2,766 ha

All fires in Amazonas · 11

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/Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).