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Wildfires in Guárico

Guárico, Venezuela: 446 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 15 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,027,448 hectares inside the region. The largest was Las Mercedes in 24 March 2024, with 20,046 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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
1,027,448ha
Since 2016
Of the region
16%
65,282 km²
fires
446
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 15
Largest fire
20,046ha
Las Mercedes · 24 March 2024
Inhabitants
658,048
1,561.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Moderate 35° · 44 % · 35 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 34° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Low 34° · 52 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 77 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 33° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 32° · 60 % · 32 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. Francisco de Miranda 141,987 inhabitants 370,468 ha · 26 %
  2. Ortíz 23,755 inhabitants 180,138 ha · 44 %
  3. Las Mercedes 33,025 inhabitants 146,536 ha · 18 %
  4. San Gerónimo de Guayabal 20,206 inhabitants 92,585 ha · 23 %
  5. Leonardo Infante 120,889 inhabitants 48,082 ha · 4.7 %
  6. Julián Mellado 44,047 ha · 21 %
  7. Juan Germán Roscio 126,178 inhabitants 40,054 ha · 22 %
  8. Santa María de Ipire 13,161 inhabitants 37,554 ha · 8.2 %
  9. El Socorro 17,097 inhabitants 19,564 ha · 7.3 %
  10. Zaraza 19,352 ha · 6.3 %
  11. Camaguán 24,391 inhabitants 15,431 ha · 11 %
  12. José Tadeo Monagas 74,559 inhabitants 12,038 ha · 3.5 %

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
202687188,836 Francisco de Miranda 5,970 ha
20253173,883 Ortíz 7,369 ha
202484209,435 Las Mercedes 20,046 ha
20233075,478 Julián Mellado 6,703 ha
20223164,615 Francisco de Miranda 5,737 ha
20211120,719 Ortíz 3,036 ha
202048117,906 Francisco de Miranda 9,019 ha
20194396,399 Francisco de Miranda 7,065 ha
20182453,929 Leonardo Infante 6,360 ha
20171233,168 Francisco de Miranda 10,817 ha
20164593,080 Las Mercedes 5,784 ha

All fires in Guárico · 446

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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