Wildfires in Ilocos Region
Ilocos Region, Philippines: 20 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 125 municipalities since 2016, burning 26,152 hectares inside the region. The largest was Nueva Era in 11 April 2026, with 2,369 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
- 26,152ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.1%
- 12,364 km²
- fires
- 20
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 14
- of 125
- Largest fire
- 2,369ha
- Nueva Era · 11 April 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 1 Very low 30° · 72 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 74 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 29° · 78 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 29° · 78 % · 20 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 29° · 75 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 29° · 67 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 30° · 68 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 8 Low 31° · 71 % · 43 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Nueva Era5,517 ha
- 4×Aguilar3,389 ha
- 3×Vintar3,780 ha
- 3×San Nicolas3,413 ha
- 3×Cervantes3,112 ha
- 2×Bugallon2,658 ha
- 2×Carasi1,509 ha
- 2×Mangatarem351 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,369 haNueva Era11 April 2026 · 9 days
- 2,137 haAguilarMarch 2022 · 2 days
- 1,809 haBakunFebruary 2019 · 10 days of 3,397 ha in total
- 1,690 haBugallonApril 2024 · 2 days
- 1,676 haSan NicolasMarch 2017 · 8 days of 2,280 ha in total
- 1,435 haNueva EraJanuary 2026 · 14 days
- 1,378 haVintarMarch 2025 · 2 days
- 1,378 haBugallonApril 2026 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Ilocos Region · 20
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,378 haBugallonApril 2026 · 3 days
- 1,221 haVintarApril 2026 · 6 days
- 1,018 haNueva Era12 April 2026 · 9 days
- 2,369 haNueva Era11 April 2026 · 9 days
- 1,125 haCabugaoApril 2026 · 6 days
- 924 haQuirinoApril 2026 · 20 days of 3,085 ha in total
- 1,060 haSan NicolasMarch 2026 · 6 days of 3,322 ha in total
- 1,435 haNueva EraJanuary 2026 · 14 days
- 1,107 haPiddigJanuary 2026 · 4 days
- 1,378 haVintarMarch 2025 · 2 days
- 1,690 haBugallonApril 2024 · 2 days
- 745 haItogon16 February 2024 · 10 days of 3,879 ha in total
- 376 haBakunJanuary 2024 · 11 days of 1,677 ha in total
- 1,176 haSigayMarch 2023 · 4 days
- 2,137 haAguilarMarch 2022 · 2 days
- 1,194 haAguilarMarch 2020 · 4 days
- 1,153 haCarasiJanuary 2020 · 4 days
- 1,809 haBakunFebruary 2019 · 10 days of 3,397 ha in total
- 1,181 haVintarFebruary 2019 · 4 days
- 1,676 haSan NicolasMarch 2017 · 8 days of 2,280 ha in total
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA), OCHA Philippines (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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