Wildfires in San Martín
San Martín, Peru: 13 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 10 provinces since 2016, burning 16,168 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mariscal Caceres in December 2025, with 1,489 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
- 16,168ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 51,516 km²
- fires
- 13
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 10
- Largest fire
- 1,489ha
- Mariscal Caceres · December 2025
- Inhabitants
- 121,218
- 133.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 55 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 30° · 68 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 33° · 45 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 30° · 59 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 32° · 57 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 28° · 72 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 29° · 60 % · 20 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Bellavista 6,633 inhabitants 4,990 ha · 0.6 %
- Mariscal Caceres 6,389 inhabitants 4,082 ha · 0.3 %
- Moyobamba 3,116 inhabitants 2,573 ha · 0.7 %
- San Martin 79,615 inhabitants 2,520 ha · 0.5 %
- Rioja 4,071 inhabitants 1,164 ha · 0.4 %
- Picota 4,754 inhabitants 838 ha · 0.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Bellavista4,990 ha
- 4×Mariscal Caceres4,082 ha
- 2×Moyobamba2,573 ha
- 2×San Martin2,520 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,489 haMariscal CaceresDecember 2025 · 3 days of 1,737 ha in total
- 1,417 haMoyobambaSeptember 2025 · 2 days
- 1,380 haBellavistaAugust 2021 · 13 days
- 1,326 haSan MartinOctober 2018 · 4 days
- 1,285 haMariscal CaceresAugust 2026 · 8 days
- 1,256 haBellavistaAugust 2016 · 7 days
- 1,219 haBellavistaAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 1,193 haSan MartinNovember 2016 · 5 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 | 2 | 2,442 | Mariscal Caceres 1,285 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 4,070 | Mariscal Caceres 1,489 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,026 | Mariscal Caceres 1,026 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 1,187 | Bellavista 1,187 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 1,380 | Bellavista 1,380 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,219 | Bellavista 1,219 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 1,326 | San Martin 1,326 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 3,518 | Bellavista 1,256 ha |
All fires in San Martín · 13
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,285 haMariscal CaceresAugust 2026 · 8 days
- 1,157 haMoyobambaAugust 2026 · 9 days
- 1,489 haMariscal CaceresDecember 2025 · 3 days of 1,737 ha in total
- 1,164 haRiojaDecember 2025 · 3 days of 2,135 ha in total
- 1,417 haMoyobambaSeptember 2025 · 2 days
- 1,026 haMariscal CaceresJuly 2024 · 5 days
- 1,187 haBellavistaAugust 2022 · 6 days
- 1,380 haBellavistaAugust 2021 · 13 days
- 1,219 haBellavistaAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 1,326 haSan MartinOctober 2018 · 4 days
- 1,193 haSan MartinNovember 2016 · 5 days
- 1,069 haPicotaAugust 2016 · 10 days
- 1,256 haBellavistaAugust 2016 · 7 days
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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