Overview
- Reports from national and regional emergency offices say the fires in the first week of October left six people dead, five in Cusco and one in Puno, and dozens more injured or displaced.
- Cusco has been hardest hit with roughly 280 incidents this year and more than 16,000 hectares lost, while active fire fronts are also reported in Apurímac, Ayacucho, Junín and Puno.
- Authorities, local brigades and the military are fighting dozens of active fronts using ground crews and some aerial water drops, but officials and communities continue to request more helicopters, personnel and medical supplies.
- Serfor has begun certified training in October to prepare over 400 local brigadistas across 26 districts to boost prevention and support suppression efforts.
- Risk maps from CENEPRED and local reporting show hundreds of thousands of people and large areas of farmland remain exposed, highlighting implementation gaps in the national multisectoral plan and the potential for more social and economic harm to rural livelihoods.