Wildfires in Trujillo
Trujillo, Venezuela: 7 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 20 municipalities since 2016, burning 11,224 hectares inside the region. The largest was Carache in September 2026, with 1,849 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
- 11,224ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 8,400 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 20
- Largest fire
- 1,849ha
- Carache · September 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 57 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 30° · 61 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 29° · 70 % · 18 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 29° · 71 % · 22 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 29° · 69 % · 20 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 29° · 69 % · 19 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 30° · 61 % · 18 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 30° · 65 % · 22 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Urdaneta1,934 ha
- 2×José Felipe Márquez Cañizales3,368 ha
- 2×Boconó2,563 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,849 haCaracheSeptember 2026 · 6 days
- 1,834 haBoconó3 March 2020 · 5 days
- 1,831 haJosé Felipe Márquez CañizalesFebruary 2023 · 8 days
- 1,637 haBoconó2 March 2020 · 7 days
- 1,537 haJosé Felipe Márquez CañizalesMarch 2020 · 8 days
- 1,511 haPampánJune 2026 · 6 days
- 1,026 haUrdanetaJanuary 2024 · 4 days of 1,516 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 3,360 | Carache 1,849 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,026 | Urdaneta 1,026 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,831 | José Felipe Márquez Cañizales 1,831 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,007 | Boconó 1,834 ha |
All fires in Trujillo · 7
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,849 haCaracheSeptember 2026 · 6 days
- 1,511 haPampánJune 2026 · 6 days
- 1,026 haUrdanetaJanuary 2024 · 4 days of 1,516 ha in total
- 1,831 haJosé Felipe Márquez CañizalesFebruary 2023 · 8 days
- 1,537 haJosé Felipe Márquez CañizalesMarch 2020 · 8 days
- 1,834 haBoconó3 March 2020 · 5 days
- 1,637 haBoconó2 March 2020 · 7 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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