Junquillos
General information
- Category
- Wildfire
- Fire classification
- Convective plume
- Country
- Chile
- Year
- 2025
© CONAF
© CONAF
The Junquillos fire starts in a harvested cereal field, spreading at high veloctity, up to 1600m/h. When the fire enters to the forested area (native forest), slowed down its speed and intensity. Part of the forest area consisted of logging debris, which caused the fire to spread with greater intensity and speed than within the native forest, but it was always within the capacity to be extinguished. The plume had a convective behaviour the first hour of the fire, with an important growth, mainly while burning the cereal field, and started to decrease its intensity with the entrance of the fire within the forested area.
Fire behaviour and surface observations
| Start location lat | -36.395926 deg N |
| Start location lon | -71.539974 deg E |
| Start location name | Junquillos |
| Start hour | 10/02/2025 19:05:00 (UTC) |
| Surface affected | 50 ha |
| Fire behavior | Surface, mid intenisty |
| Torching head | 0 % |
| Torching flanks | % |
| Flame length mean head | 1 m |
| Flame length max head | 3 m |
| Flame length mean flanks | 0.5 m |
| Flame length max flanks | 1 m |
| Spotting mean | m |
| Spotting max | m |
| Rate of spread mean | 500 m/h |
| Rate of spread max | 1600 m/h |
| Burn ratio mean | 12 ha/h |
| Burn ratio max | 40 ha/h |
