Wildfires in Miranda
Miranda, Venezuela: 8 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 21 municipalities since 2016, burning 21,339 hectares inside the region. The largest was Brión in May 2020, with 10,550 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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
- 21,339ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.4%
- 8,951 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 7
- of 21
- Largest fire
- 10,550ha
- Brión · May 2020
- Inhabitants
- 2,537,088
- 8.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Very low 34° · 60 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 34° · 59 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 32° · 70 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 34° · 60 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 30° · 72 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 32° · 60 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 31° · 69 % · 33 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 32° · 72 % · 28 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Brión 10,550 ha · 18 %
- Guaicaipuro 252,242 inhabitants 3,121 ha · 4.0 %
- Lander 144,947 inhabitants 2,344 ha · 4.5 %
- Buroz 27,515 inhabitants 2,166 ha · 9.8 %
- Independencia 138,776 inhabitants 1,619 ha · 4.8 %
- Acevedo 87,371 inhabitants 1,527 ha · 0.7 %
- Simón Bolívar 42,597 inhabitants 11 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Guaicaipuro3,121 ha
- 2×Lander2,344 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 10,551 haBriónMay 2020 · 21 days
- 2,299 haLanderApril 2020 · 5 days
- 2,166 haBurozMay 2020 · 22 days
- 1,706 haGuaicaipuroApril 2019 · 12 days
- 1,630 haSimón BolívarMarch 2016 · 21 days
- 1,527 haAcevedoMay 2020 · 9 days
- 1,415 haGuaicaipuroMarch 2016 · 9 days of 1,925 ha in total
- 45 haSan CasimiroApril 2020 · 11 days of 1,783 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | 16,588 | Brión 10,550 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,706 | Guaicaipuro 1,706 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 3,045 | Simón Bolívar 1,630 ha |
All fires in Miranda · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,527 haAcevedoMay 2020 · 9 days
- 10,551 haBriónMay 2020 · 21 days
- 2,166 haBurozMay 2020 · 22 days
- 2,299 haLanderApril 2020 · 5 days
- 45 haSan CasimiroApril 2020 · 11 days of 1,783 ha in total
- 1,706 haGuaicaipuroApril 2019 · 12 days
- 1,415 haGuaicaipuroMarch 2016 · 9 days of 1,925 ha in total
- 1,630 haSimón BolívarMarch 2016 · 21 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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