Wildfires in Lara
Lara, Venezuela: 12 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 9 municipalities since 2016, burning 25,571 hectares inside the region. The largest was Simón Planas in 13 March 2020, with 12,677 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 25,571ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 19,592 km²
- fires
- 12
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 12,677ha
- Simón Planas · 13 March 2020
- Inhabitants
- 1,774,867
- 14.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 4 Very low 28° · 62 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 27° · 72 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 26° · 74 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 27° · 69 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 27° · 76 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 30° · 49 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 31° · 44 % · 40 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Simón Planas 35,802 inhabitants 16,848 ha · 20 %
- Torres 185,275 inhabitants 4,752 ha · 0.6 %
- Urdaneta 61,381 inhabitants 2,354 ha · 0.7 %
- Iribarren 996,230 inhabitants 920 ha · 0.3 %
- Crespo 49,958 inhabitants 698 ha · 0.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,500 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Simón Planas16,848 ha
- 4×Torres4,752 ha
- 2×Urdaneta2,354 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 12,677 haSimón Planas13 March 2020 · 18 days
- 2,560 haSimón Planas7 March 2020 · 23 days
- 2,353 haUrdanetaApril 2024 · 9 days
- 1,896 haTorresAugust 2026 · 10 days
- 1,760 haTorresMarch 2020 · 5 days
- 1,619 haIribarrenMarch 2020 · 17 days
- 1,555 haSimón Planas16 March 2020 · 14 days
- 896 haTorresFebruary 2020 · 16 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 | 1 | 1,896 | Torres 1,896 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,353 | Urdaneta 2,353 ha |
| 2020 | 8 | 21,122 | Simón Planas 12,677 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 199 | Baralt 199 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | Nirgua 1 ha |
All fires in Lara · 12
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,896 haTorresAugust 2026 · 10 days
- 2,353 haUrdanetaApril 2024 · 9 days
- 17 haAnzoáteguiApril 2020 · 6 days
- 1,555 haSimón Planas16 March 2020 · 14 days
- 1,619 haIribarrenMarch 2020 · 17 days
- 38 haAnzoátegui13 March 2020 · 19 days
- 12,677 haSimón Planas13 March 2020 · 18 days
- 2,560 haSimón Planas7 March 2020 · 23 days
- 1,760 haTorresMarch 2020 · 5 days
- 896 haTorresFebruary 2020 · 16 days
- 199 haBaraltMarch 2018 · 7 days
- 1 haNirgua19 March 2016 · 12 days
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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