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Wildfires in Escuintla

Escuintla, Guatemala, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,044 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 53 % · 17 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 49 % · 21 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

14,044
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
12
fires
550
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Escuintla

  1. 1,156 ha Escuintla fire, February 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,166 ha Escuintla fire, 31 January 2026 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,019 ha Escuintla fire, 29 January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,328 ha Escuintla fire, 19 January 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,005 ha Escuintla fire, February 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 84 ha Guanagazapa fire, February 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,626 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 956 ha Escuintla fire, February 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,067 ha Escuintla fire, March 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,303 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,548 ha Escuintla fire, January 2018 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,866 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 622 ha Yepocapa fire, February 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 4,376 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,708 ha Escuintla fire, 8 February 2016 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,322 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,385 ha Escuintla fire, 8 February 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,377 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).