Wildfires in La Libertad
La Libertad, Peru: 14 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 12 provinces since 2016, burning 18,904 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bolívar in 14 November 2016, with 3,044 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
- 18,904ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 25,541 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 12
- Largest fire
- 3,044ha
- Bolívar · 14 November 2016
- Inhabitants
- 276,300
- 68.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 13 Very low 15° · 39 % · 42 km/h
- Sat 14 Very low 15° · 46 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 13° · 65 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low 14° · 50 % · 29 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low 14° · 48 % · 36 km/h
- Wed 18 Very low 15° · 50 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 19 Very low 15° · 53 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 20 Very low 16° · 52 % · 29 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Bolívar 885 inhabitants 7,830 ha · 4.5 %
- Gran Chimu 8,206 inhabitants 4,728 ha · 3.6 %
- Pataz 2,712 inhabitants 3,142 ha · 0.8 %
- Otuzco 29,023 inhabitants 2,192 ha · 1.0 %
- Sanchez Carrion 9,949 inhabitants 994 ha · 0.4 %
- Santiago de Chuco 3,848 inhabitants 18 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Bolívar7,830 ha
- 4×Gran Chimu4,728 ha
- 3×Pataz3,142 ha
- 2×Otuzco2,192 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,044 haBolívar14 November 2016 · 11 days
- 2,394 haGran Chimu17 November 2016 · 8 days
- 2,369 haBolívar16 November 2016 · 7 days
- 2,024 haPatazSeptember 2024 · 6 days
- 1,154 haOtuzcoNovember 2016 · 6 days
- 1,130 haBolívarJuly 2024 · 2 days
- 1,083 haBolívar17 November 2016 · 7 days
- 1,062 haPatazAugust 2020 · 5 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 | 1 | 1,038 | Otuzco 1,038 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 260 | Mariscal Caceres 260 ha |
| 2024 | 5 | 5,480 | Pataz 2,024 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,062 | Pataz 1,062 ha |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,063 | Bolívar 3,044 ha |
All fires in La Libertad · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,038 haOtuzcoAugust 2026 · 5 days
- 260 haMariscal CaceresDecember 2025 · 3 days
- 1,012 haSanchez CarrionSeptember 2024 · 3 days
- 263 haCajabambaSeptember 2024 · 3 days
- 2,024 haPatazSeptember 2024 · 6 days
- 1,051 haGran ChimuAugust 2024 · 4 days
- 1,130 haBolívarJuly 2024 · 2 days
- 1,062 haPatazAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 1,083 haBolívar17 November 2016 · 7 days
- 2,394 haGran Chimu17 November 2016 · 8 days
- 2,369 haBolívar16 November 2016 · 7 days
- 1,154 haOtuzcoNovember 2016 · 6 days
- 1,020 haGran Chimu15 November 2016 · 7 days
- 3,044 haBolívar14 November 2016 · 11 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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