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Wildfires in Barinas

Barinas, Venezuela: 129 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 12 municipalities since 2016, burning 282,448 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pedraza in 13 March 2020, with 7,921 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
282,448ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.6%
37,050 km²
fires
129
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 12
Largest fire
7,921ha
Pedraza · 13 March 2020
Inhabitants
757,442
372.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 11 Very low 33° · 54 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 33° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 77 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 31° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Low 33° · 46 % · 40 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Moderate 33° · 48 % · 34 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. Arismendi 23,727 inhabitants 129,938 ha · 17 %
  2. Pedraza 6,568 inhabitants 67,984 ha · 9.6 %
  3. Sosa 24,142 inhabitants 41,115 ha · 11 %
  4. Barinas 353,851 inhabitants 39,633 ha · 11 %
  5. Obispos 37,493 inhabitants 1,922 ha · 1.0 %
  6. Ezequiel Zamora 53,580 inhabitants 1,510 ha · 0.4 %
  7. Andrés Eloy Blanco 16,144 inhabitants 346 ha · 0.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,500 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
20261121,828 Arismendi 4,792 ha
202544,893 Arismendi 1,816 ha
20242753,643 Sosa 5,296 ha
20231740,811 Pedraza 4,795 ha
20221637,964 Pedraza 5,991 ha
20203274,793 Pedraza 7,921 ha
20191840,994 Pedraza 6,929 ha
201811,670 Barinas 1,670 ha
201635,850 Barinas 2,388 ha

All fires in Barinas · 129

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).

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