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GT · Guatemala · Alta Verapaz · 17,716 inhabitants

Wildfires in Chahal

Chahal, Guatemala, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,621 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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 30 Very low 29° · 54 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 65 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 66 % · 25 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

6,621
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
3
fires
463
km²

How many times has Chahal burned?

Chahal has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2024. The most recent: Chahal fire, 5 May 2024, with 3,911 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
6,621
cumulative ha
5 May 2024
most recent

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 Guatemala →

Fires that entered Chahal

  1. 3,911 ha Chahal fire, 5 May 2024 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 3,939 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 2,632 ha Chahal fire, 4 May 2024 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 2,722 ha in total · 24 days
  3. 78 ha Fray Bartolomé de las Casas fire, 22 May 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,657 ha in total · 18 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Coordinadora Nacional Para La Reducción De Desastres, OCHA FISS (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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