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Wildfires in Honduras

824 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 1,739,188 hectares burned across 147 municipalities.

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Honduras, at this point in the year: 333,168 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 781,953.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025831,955 ha

Worst year2020 1,754,635 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	1,102	333,168	GWIS
2025	523	132,464	GWIS
2024	3,024	958,091	GWIS
2023	4,119	1,347,257	GWIS
2022	1,921	517,889	GWIS
2021	1,560	358,234	GWIS
2020	4,736	1,754,635	GWIS
2019	3,870	1,150,659	GWIS
2018	2,708	790,142	GWIS
2017	1,764	478,325	GWIS
2016	2,957	831,853	GWIS
2015	2,487	743,940	GWIS
2014	2,980	803,272	GWIS
2013	3,351	896,580	GWIS
2012	1,114	257,396	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.