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Wildfires in Zulia

Zulia, Venezuela: 137 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 20 municipalities since 2016, burning 437,050 hectares inside the region. The largest was Catatumbo in 13 March 2020, with 28,083 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
437,050ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.7%
44,970 km²
fires
137
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 20
Largest fire
28,083ha
Catatumbo · 13 March 2020
Inhabitants
3,303,419
132.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 77 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 79 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 82 % · 24 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 81 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 81 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 80 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 80 % · 24 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. Machiques de Perijá 122,734 inhabitants 178,323 ha · 21 %
  2. Rosario de Perijá 85,006 inhabitants 75,695 ha · 22 %
  3. Catatumbo 68,918 ha · 14 %
  4. Jesús María Semprum 49,949 ha · 9.6 %
  5. Baralt 17,591 ha · 9.0 %
  6. Lagunillas 52,624 inhabitants 17,155 ha · 18 %
  7. Jesús Enrique Lossada 118,756 inhabitants 10,603 ha · 3.4 %
  8. Valmore Rodríguez 89,847 inhabitants 7,210 ha · 6.4 %
  9. Cabimas 263,056 inhabitants 4,810 ha · 8.3 %
  10. Páez 3,888 ha · 1.8 %
  11. Mara 207,221 inhabitants 2,299 ha · 0.7 %
  12. Miranda 97,463 inhabitants 452 ha · 0.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 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
202624,453 Rosario de Perijá 2,706 ha
202535,889 Catatumbo 2,325 ha
20241439,123 Machiques de Perijá 6,362 ha
202311,595 Machiques de Perijá 1,595 ha
2022727,008 Machiques de Perijá 7,500 ha
202112,547 Machiques de Perijá 2,547 ha
202043141,770 Catatumbo 28,083 ha
20192567,779 Machiques de Perijá 14,320 ha
201848,082 Machiques de Perijá 2,870 ha
201637138,803 Rosario de Perijá 26,462 ha

All fires in Zulia · 137

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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