Wildfires in Moquegua
Moquegua, Peru: 3 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 3 provinces since 2016, burning 3,460 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mariscal Nieto in October 2026, with 1,869 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).
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
- 3,460ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 15,878 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 3
- Largest fire
- 1,869ha
- Mariscal Nieto · October 2026
- Inhabitants
- 34,575
- 100.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Low 14° · 35 % · 32 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 14° · 29 % · 35 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 12° · 41 % · 36 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 11° · 39 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 12° · 42 % · 41 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 12° · 38 % · 36 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 13° · 22 % · 38 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Mariscal Nieto 28,389 inhabitants 1,869 ha · 0.2 %
- General Sanchez Cerro 760 inhabitants 1,591 ha · 0.3 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×General Sanchez Cerro1,591 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,869 haMariscal NietoOctober 2026 · 4 days
- 1,132 haGeneral Sanchez CerroOctober 2026 · 1 day
- 459 haArequipaSeptember 2018 · 3 days of 2,437 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 3,001 | Mariscal Nieto 1,869 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 459 | Arequipa 459 ha |
All fires in Moquegua · 3
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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