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The 2024 South American wildfires refer to a mega colossal series of wildfires that significantly impacted several neighboring South American countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Based on Global Wildfire Information System satellite imaging, about 346,112 wildfire hotspots damaged or destroyed 85,866,867 ...
2000 forest fires were the worst forest fires to date and included the island of Samos in east Aegean and at Mount Mainalon and eastern Corinthia in the Peloponnese. The burnt area was 167,000 hectares which is the second highest in recent history (after the 2007 fires). [12] 2007 Greek forest fires were
In August 2024, multiple wildfires started in Ecuador. [1] What they resulted from is currently unknown. Some cities in Ecuador such as Loja, Quito and Guayaquil have been affected by forest fires to such an extent that the Peruvian government has been forced to send personnel and support aircraft to stop the forest fires.
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a ...
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have caused at least 46 deaths, Chile's president said Saturday evening, and officials ...
Bolivia has seen the largest number of wildfires since 2010 with at least 3 million hectares (7.5 million acres) burned this year according to Inpe, Brazil's space research agency that monitors fires.
Deputy Interior Minister Manuel Monsalve reported on 4 February that there were 162 forest fires across central and southern Chile. [8] The region experienced unusually high temperatures, reaching up to 40 °C (104 °F) in the past week, [9] worsened by the El Niño phenomenon [10] and a "mega-drought" that has affected the country over the last decade. [11]
On 13 September, a man was arrested after being caught setting fire to a wooded area in Vassouras, in the south of Rio de Janeiro. Moreover, a fire hit the oldest quilombo of the state, in Valença. [19] On 14 September, State Environment Secretary Bernardo Rossi announced the closure of all parks in Rio de Janeiro because of fires across the ...