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Wildfires in Cusco

Cusco, Peru: 67 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 13 provinces since 2016, burning 94,236 hectares inside the region. The largest was Canchis in 2 October 2026, with 4,583 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.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
94,236ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
73,172 km²
fires
67
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 13
Largest fire
4,583ha
Canchis · 2 October 2026
Inhabitants
135,412
695.9 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 13° · 51 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 49 % · 56 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 51 % · 53 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 11° · 62 % · 55 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 46 % · 62 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 57 % · 67 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 44 % · 54 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 61 % · 59 km/h

Burning now in the region

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. Canchis 4,954 inhabitants 14,885 ha · 3.7 %
  2. Paruro 2,603 inhabitants 10,605 ha · 5.4 %
  3. Calca 7,812 inhabitants 10,142 ha · 2.9 %
  4. La Convencion 7,651 inhabitants 10,116 ha · 0.3 %
  5. Quispicanchi 10,873 inhabitants 10,005 ha · 1.4 %
  6. Paucartambo 13,630 inhabitants 8,709 ha · 1.5 %
  7. Chumbivilcas 7,200 inhabitants 7,156 ha · 1.3 %
  8. Anta 3,641 inhabitants 6,480 ha · 3.3 %
  9. Urubamba 3,365 inhabitants 5,134 ha · 3.5 %
  10. Espinar 2,172 inhabitants 4,102 ha · 0.8 %
  11. Acomayo 3,366 inhabitants 2,793 ha · 3.0 %
  12. Cusco 59,185 inhabitants 2,646 ha · 5.0 %

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
20262230,044 Canchis 4,583 ha
202511,037 Anta 1,037 ha
202422,358 Canchis 1,277 ha
2022811,137 Acomayo 1,901 ha
202124,132 Quispicanchi 2,548 ha
20201013,113 Calca 3,671 ha
20191115,366 Canchis 1,927 ha
201844,440 Paucartambo 1,666 ha
201722,183 Calca 1,098 ha
2016610,608 Paucartambo 3,543 ha

All fires in Cusco · 68

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).