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Wildfires in Monagas

Monagas, Venezuela: 174 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 13 municipalities since 2016, burning 673,479 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sotillo in March 2024, with 39,852 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
673,479ha
Since 2016
Of the region
24%
28,241 km²
fires
174
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 13
Largest fire
39,852ha
Sotillo · March 2024
Inhabitants
905,443
743.8 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 Low 33° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 34° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 34° · 51 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 34° · 51 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 34° · 49 % · 35 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Moderate 34° · 43 % · 44 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 34° · 50 % · 40 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. Maturín 542,259 inhabitants 460,778 ha · 36 %
  2. Libertador 45,274 inhabitants 128,256 ha · 38 %
  3. Sotillo 24,238 inhabitants 54,620 ha · 36 %
  4. Uracoa 9,625 inhabitants 17,108 ha · 9.1 %
  5. Santa Bárbara 9,809 inhabitants 5,311 ha · 16 %
  6. Aguasay 11,856 inhabitants 4,584 ha · 1.9 %
  7. Piar 46,610 inhabitants 1,699 ha · 1.6 %
  8. Cedeño 34,463 inhabitants 1,123 ha · 0.5 %

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
20262491,140 Libertador 11,506 ha
20251045,648 Maturín 10,238 ha
202439158,011 Sotillo 39,852 ha
20231965,882 Maturín 17,125 ha
2022832,212 Maturín 12,928 ha
202136,093 Maturín 3,345 ha
20201646,532 Maturín 7,806 ha
201927106,535 Independencia 14,845 ha
20181456,782 Maturín 20,096 ha
2017513,295 Maturín 5,788 ha
2016951,350 Uracoa 12,718 ha

All fires in Monagas · 175

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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