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Wildfires in Madre de Dios

Madre de Dios, Peru: 68 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 provinces since 2016, burning 144,974 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tahuamanu in 10 August 2024, with 22,519 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
144,974ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.7%
85,625 km²
fires
68
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 3
Largest fire
22,519ha
Tahuamanu · 10 August 2024
Inhabitants
136,207
1,064.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 87 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 65 % · 16 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 80 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 70 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 67 % · 33 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. Tahuamanu 4,648 inhabitants 129,226 ha · 6.4 %
  2. Tambopata 21,330 inhabitants 14,950 ha · 0.4 %
  3. Manu 110,229 inhabitants 798 ha · 0.0 %

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
202622,652 Tahuamanu 1,347 ha
202522,832 Tahuamanu 1,670 ha
20241650,396 Tahuamanu 22,519 ha
202355,969 Tambopata 1,374 ha
2022715,685 Tahuamanu 3,669 ha
2021713,076 Tahuamanu 6,231 ha
2020512,851 Tahuamanu 4,336 ha
2019811,484 Tahuamanu 3,449 ha
2018612,416 Tahuamanu 4,836 ha
2017410,061 Tahuamanu 6,351 ha
201667,553 Tahuamanu 1,733 ha

All fires in Madre de Dios · 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).

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