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Wildfires in Orange Walk

Orange Walk, Belize, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 26,629 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 31° · 47 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 31° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 31° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 58 % · 35 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

26,629
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
22
fires
4,671
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Orange Walk

  1. 1,286 ha Orange Walk fire, May 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,278 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 62 ha Cayo fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,574 ha Orange Walk fire, April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,675 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 853 ha Orange Walk fire, May 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,014 ha Orange Walk fire, April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,044 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 256 ha Cayo fire, 13 June 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,119 ha Orange Walk fire, April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,272 ha Orange Walk fire, March 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,187 ha Orange Walk fire, 22 March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,181 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,530 ha Orange Walk fire, 19 March 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,376 ha Orange Walk fire, 28 April 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,371 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,471 ha Orange Walk fire, 27 April 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,160 ha Orange Walk fire, April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,153 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,420 ha Orange Walk fire, March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,412 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 1,027 ha Orange Walk fire, July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,403 ha Orange Walk fire, June 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,395 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,191 ha Orange Walk fire, 8 May 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,187 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 1,737 ha Orange Walk fire, 2 May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,731 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,251 ha Orange Walk fire, 26 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 1,078 ha Orange Walk fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,093 ha Orange Walk fire, 6 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,151 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 1,270 ha Orange Walk fire, 6 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 24 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).