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GT · Guatemala · Alta Verapaz · 250,675 inhabitants

Wildfires in Cobán

Cobán, Guatemala, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,071 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 61 % · 15 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 46 % · 14 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 60 % · 20 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

4,071
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
4
fires
2,280
km²

How many times has Cobán burned?

Cobán has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Cobán fire, May 2024, with 1,362 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
4,071
cumulative ha
10 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 Cobán

  1. 1,362 ha Cobán fire, May 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,354 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,023 ha Cobán fire, April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 608 ha Cobán fire, April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,079 ha Cobán fire, March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 6 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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