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Wildfires in Cajamarca

Cajamarca, Peru: 27 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 13 provinces since 2016, burning 43,483 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chota in 17 November 2016, with 12,111 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
43,483ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
33,275 km²
fires
27
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 13
Largest fire
12,111ha
Chota · 17 November 2016
Inhabitants
99,280
438.0 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 22° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 56 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 52 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 60 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 53 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 62 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 61 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 78 % · 37 km/h

Burning now in the region

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. Chota 811 inhabitants 17,564 ha · 4.6 %
  2. Cutervo 1,245 inhabitants 9,397 ha · 3.1 %
  3. Jaén 10,852 inhabitants 6,477 ha · 1.3 %
  4. Cajamarca 4,399 inhabitants 6,167 ha · 2.1 %
  5. Cajabamba 9,095 inhabitants 1,902 ha · 1.1 %
  6. Hualgayoc 12,392 inhabitants 1,121 ha · 1.4 %
  7. Celendín 1,177 inhabitants 856 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
202611,014 Jaén 1,014 ha
202466,568 Cutervo 1,801 ha
202212,334 Cajamarca 2,334 ha
202011,000 Jaén 1,000 ha
201823,557 Cajamarca 2,424 ha
20161629,009 Chota 12,111 ha

All fires in Cajamarca · 27

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).