La Capellanía
General information
- Category
- Wildfire
- Fire classification
- Overshooting PyroCu
- Country
- Chile
- Year
- 2025
© CONAF
© CONAF
The Capellanía fire was a rapid fire, starting near the urban-forest interface zone, with high intensity from the outset and generating a significant convective plume. Around 40 minutes after its start, it has sufficient intensity to generate a small overshooting pyrocumulus, causing the column to flatten and disperse (visible during approach at over 80 kilometres). At around 18:45, the head of the fire hits the lake (water reservoir), which is unable to jump. From then on, the flanks make some relocations, but these are of low intensity and no large column is generated again.
Fire behaviour and surface observations
| Start location lat | -34.104316 deg N |
| Start location lon | -71.571216 deg E |
| Start location name | La Capellanía |
| Start hour | 03/02/2025 20:05:00 (UTC) |
| Surface affected | 177 ha |
| Fire behavior | Surface, high intensity |
| Torching head | 20 % |
| Torching flanks | % |
| Flame length mean head | 5 m |
| Flame length max head | 20 m |
| Flame length mean flanks | 3 m |
| Flame length max flanks | 5 m |
| Spotting mean | m |
| Spotting max | 20 m |
| Rate of spread mean | 550 m/h |
| Rate of spread max | 1700 m/h |
| Burn ratio mean | 45 ha/h |
| Burn ratio max | 120 ha/h |
