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Wildfires in Dolores

Dolores, Guatemala, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 10,590 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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° · 55 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 54 % · 13 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 31° · 55 % · 24 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

10,590
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
8
fires
1,668
km²

How many times has Dolores burned?

Dolores has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Dolores fire, April 2024, with 1,157 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,590 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,862 hectares, 5.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
5
years with fire
10,590
cumulative ha
8,862
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 Guatemala →

Fires that entered Dolores

  1. 1,157 ha Dolores fire, April 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,121 ha Dolores fire, April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,116 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 317 ha Poptún fire, 11 April 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,976 ha Melchor de Mencos fire, 2 April 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 5,529 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 1,116 ha Dolores fire, March 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,288 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 1,067 ha Dolores fire, May 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,900 ha Dolores fire, 24 March 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 1,936 ha Dolores fire, 24 March 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,489 ha in total · 19 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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