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Districts that have burned most often in Belize

Districts of Belize with at least one fire larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 6. With two or more: 5. Top of the list is Cayo, which has burned 30 times in 10 years, with 67,627 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1Cayo30×10 years · 67,627 ha
  2. 2Orange Walk22×9 years · 26,629 ha
  3. 3Toledo20×8 years · 32,491 ha
  4. 4Belize14×5 years · 17,791 ha
  5. 5Stann Creek5×5 years · 5,878 ha
  6. 6Corozal1×1 year · 1,063 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1Cayo67,627 ha30× · 13 %
  2. 2Toledo32,491 ha20× · 7.5 %
  3. 3Orange Walk26,629 ha22× · 5.7 %
  4. 4Belize17,791 ha14× · 4.9 %
  5. 5Stann Creek5,878 ha5× · 2.5 %
  6. 6Corozal1,063 ha1× · 0.5 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1Cayo13 %67,627 ha · 5,314 km²
  2. 2Toledo7.5 %32,491 ha · 4,325 km²
  3. 3Orange Walk5.7 %26,629 ha · 4,671 km²
  4. 4Belize4.9 %17,791 ha · 3,654 km²
  5. 5Stann Creek2.5 %5,878 ha · 2,381 km²
  6. 6Corozal0.5 %1,063 ha · 1,969 km²

How it is calculated

We count fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached each municipality, even partly. Hectares are those burned inside the municipality and are added fire by fire, so land that burned twice counts twice; that is why the share, given only for municipalities of 10 km² or more, can exceed 100 % (it is then shown as a multiple). It describes what happened: it does not measure risk or say anything about causes.