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Wildfires in Sucre

Sucre, Venezuela: 28 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 15 municipalities since 2016, burning 70,250 hectares inside the region. The largest was Benítez in 8 April 2020, with 5,737 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
70,250ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.3%
11,159 km²
fires
28
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 15
Largest fire
5,737ha
Benítez · 8 April 2020
Inhabitants
534,924
131.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 12 Very low 29° · 67 % · 42 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 74 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 76 % · 43 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 45 % · 43 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 29° · 58 % · 40 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Low 30° · 45 % · 44 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Low 31° · 47 % · 45 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 30° · 61 % · 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. Benítez 55,645 ha · 20 %
  2. Mejía 3,619 ha · 13 %
  3. Sucre 358,919 inhabitants 2,279 ha · 1.5 %
  4. Montes 5,000 inhabitants 2,063 ha · 2.1 %
  5. Ribero 15,139 inhabitants 1,722 ha · 1.3 %
  6. Bolívar 1,675 ha · 8.5 %
  7. Libertador 4,595 inhabitants 1,533 ha · 7.1 %
  8. Arismendi 1,010 ha · 1.4 %
  9. Cajigal 12,473 inhabitants 702 ha · 2.1 %

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
202611,628 Sucre 1,628 ha
202511,671 Benítez 1,671 ha
2024616,749 Benítez 4,966 ha
202349,415 Benítez 3,903 ha
202211,990 Benítez 1,990 ha
2020722,054 Benítez 5,737 ha
2019410,238 Benítez 4,963 ha
201811,642 Benítez 1,642 ha
201634,863 Ribero 1,722 ha

All fires in Sucre · 28

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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