Wildfires in Colombia
Situation over the last 30 days
60 fires detected in Colombia over the last 30 days, totalling 7,598 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from September 6 at 10:56 AM.
The fire season in Colombia peaks from August to October, at the end of the dry season. A large share of ignitions comes from land clearing and pasture burning, and fires spread into forest and wetlands in drought years.
- Tolima (CO)from September 5 at 08:43 PM to September 5 at 10:40 PM1,087 ha
- Norte de Santander (CO)from September 6 at 04:06 AM to September 6 at 10:56 AM893 ha
- Nariño (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 10:40 PM390 ha
- Norte de Santander (CO)from September 5 at 08:41 PM to September 6 at 09:01 AM343 ha
- Cauca (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 10:40 PM224 ha
- Norte de Santander (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 10:42 PM215 ha
- Caquetá (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 10:38 PM214 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM206 ha
- Cesar (CO)from September 5 at 08:43 PM to September 6 at 09:18 AM201 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM198 ha
- Norte de Santander (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 6 at 09:01 AM172 ha
- Meta (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM161 ha
- Casanare (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:41 PM139 ha
- Magdalena (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM138 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM132 ha
- Tolima (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM123 ha
- Meta (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM122 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM114 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM112 ha
- Cesar (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 6 at 09:01 AM106 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM98 ha
- Bolívar (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM93 ha
- Cesar (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM90 ha
- Bolívar (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:41 PM89 ha
- Cauca (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM85 ha
- Arauca (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:41 PM77 ha
- Meta (CO)from September 5 at 08:43 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM75 ha
- Norte de Santander (CO)from September 6 at 07:38 AM to September 6 at 09:01 AM74 ha
- Meta (CO)from September 5 at 08:43 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM73 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM73 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM72 ha
- Bolívar (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM68 ha
- Norte de Santander (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 6 at 09:01 AM68 ha
- Bolívar (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM62 ha
- Bolívar (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM62 ha
- Cauca (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM60 ha
- Casanare (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:21 PM59 ha
- Vichada (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:21 PM56 ha
- Tolima (CO)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM54 ha
- Bolívar (CO)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM54 ha
Other countries
- Spain
- Portugal
- Italy
- Greece
- Turkey
- Croatia
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- Ukraine
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Serbia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Albania
- North Macedonia
- Montenegro
- Cyprus
- Switzerland
- Belgium
- Poland
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
- Bolivia
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Venezuela
- Australia
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Myanmar
- Vietnam
- Cambodia
- Laos
- India
- Pakistan
- Nepal
- China
- Mongolia
- Kazakhstan
- Russia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Syria
- Algeria
- Tunisia
- Morocco
- Libya
- Egypt
- Sudan
- South Sudan
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Mozambique
- Zimbabwe
- Zambia
- Angola
- South Africa
- Madagascar
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Central African Republic
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Ivory Coast
- Mali
- Burkina Faso
- Senegal
- Guinea
These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a 375 m pixel counting whole when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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