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Wildfires in Joyabaj

Joyabaj, Guatemala, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,050 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 22° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 23° · 45 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 47 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 25° · 35 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 25° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 25° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 25° · 48 % · 29 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

1,050
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
3
fires
475
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Joyabaj

  1. 895 ha Joyabaj fire, May 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 126 ha San Martín Jilotepeque fire, April 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,540 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 29 ha Chichicastenango fire, March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 4 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).