Wildfires in El Chal
El Chal, Guatemala, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2024: 199 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% 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- Sat 24 Very low 29° · 54 % · 18 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 28° · 54 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 28° · 60 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 28° · 64 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 28° · 62 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 28° · 65 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 29° · 62 % · 21 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 30° · 62 % · 17 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
- 199
- hectares burned
- 0.2 %
- of its area
- 1
- fires
- 963
- km²
How many times has El Chal burned?
El Chal has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2024. The most recent: San Francisco fire, April 2024, with 199 hectares inside the municipality.
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- fires
- 1
- years with fire
- 199
- cumulative ha
- 15 Apr 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.
Fires that entered El Chal
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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