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Wildfires in Áncash

Áncash, Peru: 15 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 20 provinces since 2016, burning 21,668 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pallasca in 16 November 2016, with 2,790 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
21,668ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.6%
36,286 km²
fires
15
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 20
Largest fire
2,790ha
Pallasca · 16 November 2016
Inhabitants
102,818
210.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 12° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 12° · 69 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 12° · 79 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 40 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 47 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 47 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 46 % · 46 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. Pallasca 2,692 inhabitants 5,045 ha · 2.4 %
  2. Sihuas 6,102 inhabitants 3,293 ha · 2.2 %
  3. Santa 22,780 inhabitants 3,039 ha · 0.8 %
  4. Yungay 25,974 inhabitants 2,819 ha · 2.1 %
  5. Corongo 603 inhabitants 2,634 ha · 2.6 %
  6. Huaylas 2,087 inhabitants 1,577 ha · 0.7 %
  7. Carhuaz 3,559 inhabitants 1,100 ha · 1.3 %
  8. Recuay 2,602 inhabitants 1,092 ha · 0.5 %
  9. Bolognesi 567 inhabitants 1,069 ha · 0.3 %

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
202622,569 Yungay 1,532 ha
202522,161 Recuay 1,092 ha
202456,234 Corongo 1,508 ha
202311,559 Santa 1,559 ha
201911,016 Huaylas 1,016 ha
201648,129 Pallasca 2,790 ha

All fires in Áncash · 15

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).