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Wildfires in Amazonas

Amazonas, Venezuela: 51 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 7 municipalities since 2016, burning 114,854 hectares inside the region. The largest was Autónomo Alto Orinoco in 17 January 2016, with 6,130 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
114,854ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.6%
181,307 km²
fires
51
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 7
Largest fire
6,130ha
Autónomo Alto Orinoco · 17 January 2016
Inhabitants
138,128
831.5 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 28° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 72 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 48 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 51 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 62 % · 40 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Autónomo Manapiare 7,715 inhabitants 84,562 ha · 2.6 %
  2. Autónomo Alto Orinoco 12,687 inhabitants 21,198 ha · 0.4 %
  3. Autónomo Atabapo 9,169 inhabitants 7,026 ha · 0.3 %
  4. Autónomo Atures 104,228 inhabitants 2,068 ha · 0.5 %

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
2026819,437 Autónomo Manapiare 5,116 ha
202523,815 Autónomo Manapiare 1,959 ha
2024611,830 Autónomo Alto Orinoco 2,506 ha
2023510,423 Autónomo Manapiare 3,042 ha
2020615,562 Autónomo Manapiare 4,708 ha
2019918,098 Autónomo Manapiare 3,965 ha
201834,734 Autónomo Manapiare 1,627 ha
20161230,956 Autónomo Alto Orinoco 6,130 ha

All fires in Amazonas · 51

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/OCHA Venezuela, Instituto Nacional de Estadística (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).