Wildfires in Lambayeque
Lambayeque, Peru: 8 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 3 provinces since 2016, burning 14,380 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ferreñafe in 18 November 2016, with 8,701 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).
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
- 14,380ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.0%
- 14,316 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 3
- Largest fire
- 8,701ha
- Ferreñafe · 18 November 2016
- Inhabitants
- 68,274
- 210.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 High 32° · 50 % · 41 km/h
- Sat 24 High 33° · 47 % · 40 km/h
- Sun 25 High 35° · 44 % · 45 km/h
- Mon 26 High 32° · 52 % · 41 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 52 % · 47 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 30° · 68 % · 40 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 29° · 70 % · 43 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 53 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Ferreñafe 26,491 inhabitants 10,221 ha · 6.5 %
- Lambayeque 11,284 inhabitants 4,159 ha · 0.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 7×Ferreñafe10,221 ha
- 2×Lambayeque4,159 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 8,701 haFerreñafe18 November 2016 · 7 days
- 1,759 haFerreñafe17 November 2016 · 5 days of 1,992 ha in total
- 1,179 haFerreñafe17 November 2016 · 5 days of 1,417 ha in total
- 1,094 haLambayequeNovember 2017 · 2 days
- 1,049 haFerreñafe16 November 2016 · 7 days
- 443 haChotaSeptember 2024 · 6 days of 1,629 ha in total
- 101 haCutervo21 November 2016 · 2 days of 3,233 ha in total
- 54 haJaénNovember 2020 · 4 days of 1,047 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 443 | Chota 443 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 54 | Jaén 54 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,094 | Lambayeque 1,094 ha |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,789 | Ferreñafe 8,701 ha |
All fires in Lambayeque · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 443 haChotaSeptember 2024 · 6 days of 1,629 ha in total
- 54 haJaénNovember 2020 · 4 days of 1,047 ha in total
- 1,094 haLambayequeNovember 2017 · 2 days
- 101 haCutervo21 November 2016 · 2 days of 3,233 ha in total
- 8,701 haFerreñafe18 November 2016 · 7 days
- 1,179 haFerreñafe17 November 2016 · 5 days of 1,417 ha in total
- 1,759 haFerreñafe17 November 2016 · 5 days of 1,992 ha in total
- 1,049 haFerreñafe16 November 2016 · 7 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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