Wildfires in Arequipa
Arequipa, Peru: 10 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 8 provinces since 2016, burning 16,434 hectares inside the region. The largest was Condesuyos in October 2026, with 3,291 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 37).
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
- 16,434ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 63,769 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 3,291ha
- Condesuyos · October 2026
- Inhabitants
- 220,300
- 74.6 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 high 29° · 21 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 24 High 30° · 25 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 30° · 19 % · 38 km/h
- Mon 26 High 28° · 22 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 27 High 28° · 30 % · 34 km/h
- Wed 28 High 27° · 33 % · 36 km/h
- Thu 29 High 28° · 26 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 30 High 28° · 23 % · 33 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Arequipa 61,231 inhabitants 7,308 ha · 0.8 %
- La Union 642 inhabitants 5,037 ha · 1.0 %
- Condesuyos 6,192 inhabitants 3,063 ha · 0.4 %
- Caylloma 119,616 inhabitants 1,026 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Arequipa7,308 ha
- 3×La Union5,037 ha
- 2×Condesuyos3,063 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,291 haCondesuyosOctober 2026 · 3 days
- 2,742 haArequipaJune 2026 · 5 days
- 2,094 haLa UnionSeptember 2026 · 3 days
- 1,994 haArequipaSeptember 2018 · 3 days of 2,437 ha in total
- 1,588 haLa UnionOctober 2019 · 2 days
- 1,291 haArequipaSeptember 2025 · 2 days
- 1,280 haArequipaOctober 2026 · 4 days
- 1,127 haCondesuyosNovember 2021 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 9,408 | Condesuyos 3,291 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 2,317 | Arequipa 1,291 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 1,127 | Condesuyos 1,127 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,588 | La Union 1,588 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 1,994 | Arequipa 1,994 ha |
All fires in Arequipa · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,291 haCondesuyosOctober 2026 · 3 days
- 1 haGeneral Sanchez CerroOctober 2026 · 1 day of 1,126 ha in total
- 1,280 haArequipaOctober 2026 · 4 days
- 2,094 haLa UnionSeptember 2026 · 3 days
- 2,742 haArequipaJune 2026 · 5 days
- 1,026 haCayllomaOctober 2025 · 1 day
- 1,291 haArequipaSeptember 2025 · 2 days
- 1,127 haCondesuyosNovember 2021 · 2 days
- 1,588 haLa UnionOctober 2019 · 2 days
- 1,994 haArequipaSeptember 2018 · 3 days of 2,437 ha in total
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).