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Wildfires in Apurímac

Apurímac, Peru: 34 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 7 provinces since 2016, burning 52,886 hectares inside the region. The largest was Abancay in 6 October 2026, with 8,039 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
52,886ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.5%
21,382 km²
fires
34
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 7
Largest fire
8,039ha
Abancay · 6 October 2026
Inhabitants
35,748
1,479.4 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 15° · 47 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 37 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 61 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 32 % · 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. Abancay 13,299 inhabitants 27,337 ha · 7.9 %
  2. Cotabambas 12,535 inhabitants 12,333 ha · 4.7 %
  3. Chincheros 1,582 inhabitants 4,475 ha · 2.9 %
  4. Aymaraes 1,154 inhabitants 3,881 ha · 0.9 %
  5. Andahuaylas 4,660 inhabitants 2,606 ha · 0.6 %
  6. Grau 920 inhabitants 2,255 ha · 1.1 %

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
20261427,918 Abancay 8,039 ha
202424,162 Cotabambas 2,480 ha
2022910,900 Chincheros 1,653 ha
202054,673 Abancay 1,315 ha
201922,985 Abancay 1,904 ha
201811,155 Abancay 1,155 ha
201611,094 Abancay 1,094 ha

All fires in Apurímac · 34

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).