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Wildfires in Loreto

Loreto, Peru: 26 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 8 provinces since 2016, burning 43,743 hectares inside the region. The largest was Loreto in 18 September 2019, with 5,077 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 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
43,743ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
378,289 km²
fires
26
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 8
Largest fire
5,077ha
Loreto · 18 September 2019
Inhabitants
158,193
276.5 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 29° · 67 % · 14 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 33° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 34° · 51 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 54 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 68 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 88 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 84 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 97 % · 23 km/h

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. Ucayali 7,742 inhabitants 22,667 ha · 0.8 %
  2. Loreto 17,685 inhabitants 15,969 ha · 0.2 %
  3. Maynas 484 inhabitants 3,270 ha · 0.0 %
  4. Datem del Marañon 10,971 inhabitants 1,352 ha · 0.0 %
  5. Alto Amazonas 103,247 inhabitants 1,130 ha · 0.1 %

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
202652,958 Alto Amazonas 1,130 ha
2024511,808 Coronel Portillo 3,841 ha
202343,417 Ucayali 1,752 ha
202232,740 Ucayali 1,275 ha
202122,861 Ucayali 1,686 ha
2019920,603 Loreto 5,077 ha

All fires in Loreto · 28

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).