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Wildfires in Puno

Puno, Peru: 35 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 13 provinces since 2016, burning 57,672 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lampa in August 2020, with 3,635 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
57,672ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.8%
68,168 km²
fires
35
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 13
Largest fire
3,635ha
Lampa · August 2020
Inhabitants
187,089
308.3 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 19° · 33 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 34 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 27 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 44 % · 59 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 17° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 19° · 18 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 19 % · 50 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 23 % · 37 km/h

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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. Puno 24,734 inhabitants 15,089 ha · 2.3 %
  2. Lampa 1,398 inhabitants 11,870 ha · 2.1 %
  3. Melgar 4,461 inhabitants 6,817 ha · 1.0 %
  4. Chucuito 22,761 inhabitants 5,773 ha · 1.5 %
  5. El Collao 5,215 inhabitants 5,639 ha · 1.0 %
  6. San Roman 73,628 inhabitants 5,001 ha · 2.2 %
  7. San Antonio de Putina 2,231 inhabitants 1,783 ha · 0.6 %
  8. Azángaro 3,000 inhabitants 1,434 ha · 0.3 %
  9. Moho 2,512 inhabitants 1,329 ha · 1.3 %
  10. Sandia 2,078 inhabitants 1,296 ha · 0.1 %
  11. Carabaya 7,644 inhabitants 1,204 ha · 0.1 %
  12. Huancané 11,974 inhabitants 438 ha · 0.2 %

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
20261524,610 San Roman 2,531 ha
202422,365 Melgar 1,302 ha
202311,296 Sandia 1,296 ha
20221219,470 Lampa 3,620 ha
202112,756 El Collao 2,756 ha
202036,150 Lampa 3,635 ha
201811,024 Melgar 1,024 ha

All fires in Puno · 35

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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