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Wildfires in Cayo

Cayo, Belize, has had 30 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 67,627 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 26° · 55 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 63 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 61 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 69 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 59 % · 29 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

67,627
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
30
fires
5,314
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cayo

  1. 1,889 ha Cayo fire, 19 May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,878 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,699 ha Cayo fire, 1 May 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,685 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,536 ha Cayo fire, April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,110 ha Cayo fire, 18 May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 7,648 ha Cayo fire, 16 May 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,607 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 4,268 ha Cayo fire, 2 May 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,323 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 1,024 ha Cayo fire, 14 June 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 808 ha Cayo fire, 13 June 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,050 ha Cayo fire, 10 June 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 2,037 ha Cayo fire, May 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,026 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 467 ha Belize fire, March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,238 ha Cayo fire, March 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,229 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,311 ha Cayo fire, 14 May 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,297 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,139 ha Cayo fire, 9 May 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 45 ha Orange Walk fire, 27 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 1,187 ha Cayo fire, 20 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 8,149 ha Cayo fire, 7 April 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 9,170 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 2,284 ha Cayo fire, May 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 1,659 ha Cayo fire, 29 April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,647 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 1,235 ha Cayo fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,325 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,169 ha Cayo fire, March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 3,383 ha Cayo fire, April 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,363 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 1,050 ha Cayo fire, March 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,044 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 8,785 ha Cayo fire, 16 May 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 8,738 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 1,585 ha Cayo fire, 14 May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,575 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 4,731 ha Cayo fire, 8 May 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,704 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,087 ha Cayo fire, 4 May 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 1,170 ha Cayo fire, April 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,160 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 1,822 ha Cayo fire, July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,811 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 63 ha Orange Walk fire, 6 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,151 ha in total · 12 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).