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Wildfires in Esmeralda

Esmeralda, Cuba, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 32,609 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% 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 29° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 52 % · 16 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 64 % · 28 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

32,609
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
25
fires
2,062
km²

How many times has Esmeralda burned?

Esmeralda has burned 25 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Esmeralda fire, 27 August 2026, with 1,115 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 32,609 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,812 hectares, 9.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
25
fires
9
years with fire
32,609
cumulative ha
19,812
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Cuba →

Fires that entered Esmeralda

  1. 1,115 ha Esmeralda fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,077 ha Esmeralda fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,610 ha Esmeralda fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,605 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,128 ha Esmeralda fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,078 ha Esmeralda fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,741 ha Esmeralda fire, July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,736 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,218 ha Esmeralda fire, March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,213 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,434 ha Esmeralda fire, August 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,452 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,177 ha Esmeralda fire, March 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 57 ha Florida fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,256 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,489 ha Esmeralda fire, February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,483 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 168 ha Camagüey fire, 26 January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,859 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,176 ha Esmeralda fire, December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,700 ha Esmeralda fire, March 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,748 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,353 ha Esmeralda fire, May 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 119 ha Céspedes fire, April 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,413 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 4,596 ha Esmeralda fire, April 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,592 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 1,184 ha Esmeralda fire, 29 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 2,211 ha Esmeralda fire, 7 April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,203 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 790 ha Florida fire, 9 February 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 2,945 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,043 ha Camagüey fire, February 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 2,602 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 2,162 ha Esmeralda fire, 20 February 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,155 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 1,238 ha Esmeralda fire, 12 February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,233 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 1,146 ha Esmeralda fire, April 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 599 ha Florida fire, March 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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