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Wildfires in Jacaltenango

Jacaltenango, Guatemala, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,374 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% 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. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 28° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 28° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 29° · 48 % · 22 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

7,374
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
4
fires
164
km²

How many times has Jacaltenango burned?

Jacaltenango has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Jacaltenango fire, April 2026, with 3,556 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,374 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,636 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
7,374
cumulative ha
3,636
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 Jacaltenango

  1. 3,556 ha Jacaltenango fire, April 2026 where it started 22% of the municipality · 4,009 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,101 ha Jacaltenango fire, April 2019 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 1,095 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,254 ha Jacaltenango fire, March 2019 where it started 7.6% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,463 ha Jacaltenango fire, April 2017 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 1,454 ha in total · 10 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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