Wildfires in Ayacucho
Ayacucho, Peru: 16 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 11 provinces since 2016, burning 22,687 hectares inside the region. The largest was Huamanga in October 2020, with 2,341 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
- 22,687ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.5%
- 43,941 km²
- fires
- 16
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 2,341ha
- Huamanga · October 2020
- Inhabitants
- 42,434
- 534.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 14° · 56 % · 32 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 16° · 54 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 12° · 64 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 14° · 43 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 14° · 41 % · 37 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 16° · 33 % · 45 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 16° · 47 % · 34 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 16° · 40 % · 37 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Huamanga 21,823 inhabitants 5,968 ha · 1.9 %
- La Mar 2,286 inhabitants 4,489 ha · 1.1 %
- Huanta 309 inhabitants 3,774 ha · 1.0 %
- Vilcas Huamán 5,130 inhabitants 2,666 ha · 2.3 %
- Parinacochas 1,232 inhabitants 1,857 ha · 0.3 %
- Victor Fajardo 2,955 inhabitants 1,576 ha · 0.7 %
- Cangallo 3,527 inhabitants 1,291 ha · 0.7 %
- Huanca Sancos 2,200 inhabitants 1,065 ha · 0.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Huamanga5,968 ha
- 3×La Mar4,489 ha
- 3×Huanta3,774 ha
- 2×Vilcas Huamán2,666 ha
- 2×Victor Fajardo1,576 ha
- 2×Cangallo1,291 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,341 haHuamangaOctober 2020 · 3 days
- 2,238 haLa MarJuly 2016 · 5 days
- 1,857 haParinacochasOctober 2026 · 7 days
- 1,536 haVictor FajardoOctober 2026 · 4 days
- 1,420 haHuantaJuly 2025 · 5 days
- 1,393 haHuamangaSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 1,381 haVilcas HuamánSeptember 2024 · 3 days
- 1,346 haHuantaAugust 2020 · 3 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 | 4 | 5,852 | Parinacochas 1,857 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 1,420 | Huanta 1,420 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,381 | Vilcas Huamán 1,381 ha |
| 2022 | 5 | 5,771 | Cangallo 1,331 ha |
| 2020 | 4 | 6,026 | Huamanga 2,341 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 2,238 | La Mar 2,238 ha |
All fires in Ayacucho · 16
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,065 haHuanca SancosOctober 2026 · 6 days
- 1,536 haVictor FajardoOctober 2026 · 4 days
- 1,857 haParinacochasOctober 2026 · 7 days
- 1,393 haHuamangaSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 1,420 haHuantaJuly 2025 · 5 days
- 1,381 haVilcas HuamánSeptember 2024 · 3 days
- 1,331 haCangalloNovember 2022 · 5 days
- 1,008 haHuantaNovember 2022 · 6 days
- 1,159 haHuamanga28 October 2022 · 4 days
- 1,198 haLa MarOctober 2022 · 2 days
- 1,076 haHuamanga10 October 2022 · 5 days
- 1,286 haVilcas HuamánOctober 2020 · 3 days
- 2,341 haHuamangaOctober 2020 · 3 days
- 1,346 haHuantaAugust 2020 · 3 days
- 1,053 haLa MarAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 2,238 haLa MarJuly 2016 · 5 days
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).
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