Wildfires in Piura
Piura, Peru: 14 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 8 provinces since 2016, burning 21,040 hectares inside the region. The largest was Talara in September 2019, with 3,515 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
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
- 21,040ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 36,150 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 7
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 3,515ha
- Talara · September 2019
- Inhabitants
- 360,432
- 58.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Very low 30° · 64 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 55 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 54 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 33° · 46 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 1 Low 32° · 52 % · 35 km/h
- Mon 2 Low 32° · 45 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 3 Low 32° · 45 % · 35 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 31° · 52 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Huancabamba 11,817 inhabitants 9,632 ha · 2.2 %
- Paita 6,655 inhabitants 5,465 ha · 3.2 %
- Talara 99,651 inhabitants 3,515 ha · 1.2 %
- Morropón 8,131 inhabitants 1,039 ha · 0.3 %
- Sechura 17,890 inhabitants 589 ha · 0.1 %
- Piura 206,994 inhabitants 518 ha · 0.1 %
- Sullana 7,775 inhabitants 283 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Huancabamba9,632 ha
- 4×Paita5,465 ha
- 3×Sullana283 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,515 haTalaraSeptember 2019 · 1 day
- 3,370 haHuancabamba15 November 2024 · 8 days
- 2,296 haPaitaOctober 2025 · 2 days
- 1,435 haHuancabamba19 November 2016 · 5 days
- 1,358 haHuancabamba9 November 2024 · 4 days
- 1,341 haHuancabamba20 November 2016 · 4 days
- 1,264 haPaitaJuly 2016 · 5 days
- 1,244 haHuancabamba20 November 2016 · 3 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 | 1,106 | Sechura 1,106 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 2,296 | Paita 2,296 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 4,727 | Huancabamba 3,370 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 3,596 | Talara 3,515 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,039 | Morropón 1,039 ha |
| 2016 | 7 | 8,275 | Huancabamba 1,435 ha |
All fires in Piura · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,106 haSechuraJune 2026 · 12 days
- 2,296 haPaitaOctober 2025 · 2 days
- 3,370 haHuancabamba15 November 2024 · 8 days
- 1,358 haHuancabamba9 November 2024 · 4 days
- 82 haContralmirante VillarSeptember 2019 · 1 day of 6,492 ha in total
- 3,515 haTalaraSeptember 2019 · 1 day
- 1,039 haMorropónOctober 2017 · 1 day
- 1,341 haHuancabamba20 November 2016 · 4 days
- 885 haHuancabamba20 November 2016 · 6 days of 1,051 ha in total
- 1,244 haHuancabamba20 November 2016 · 3 days
- 1,435 haHuancabamba19 November 2016 · 5 days
- 1,083 haPaitaSeptember 2016 · 10 days
- 1,264 haPaitaJuly 2016 · 5 days
- 1,024 haPaitaJanuary 2016 · 1 day
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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