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Wildfires in Chimaltenango

Chimaltenango, Guatemala, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2022: 346 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 47 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 33 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 56 % · 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

346
hectares burned
7.0 %
of its area
1
fires
49
km²

How many times has Chimaltenango burned?

Chimaltenango has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: San Juan Sacatepéquez fire, March 2022, with 346 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
346
cumulative ha
4 Mar 2022
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 Chimaltenango

  1. 346 ha San Juan Sacatepéquez fire, March 2022 7.0% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 4 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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