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Wildfires in El Estor

El Estor, Guatemala, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,540 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 69 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 66 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 74 % · 23 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

17,540
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
11
fires
1,583
km²

How many times has El Estor burned?

El Estor has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: El Estor fire, 15 May 2024, with 1,021 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,540 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,998 hectares, 9.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 5× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
11
fires
6
years with fire
17,540
cumulative ha
14,998
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 El Estor

  1. 1,021 ha El Estor fire, 15 May 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,885 ha El Estor fire, 10 May 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 6 ha Chahal fire, 5 May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,939 ha in total · 27 days
  4. 1,594 ha El Estor fire, 5 May 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,584 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 6,823 ha El Estor fire, 2 May 2024 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 7,161 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 1,262 ha El Estor fire, May 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,254 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 1,059 ha El Estor fire, May 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,052 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,565 ha El Estor fire, May 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,554 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 28 ha Lívingston fire, 25 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,288 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,019 ha El Estor fire, 7 May 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 1,280 ha El Estor fire, 7 May 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,272 ha in total · 7 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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