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Wildfires in Las Cruces

Las Cruces, Guatemala, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,589 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.4% 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. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 62 % · 14 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 65 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 27° · 84 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 28° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 68 % · 19 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 29° · 53 % · 18 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 29° · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Las Cruces: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,589
hectares burned
5.4 %
of its area
11
fires
1,769
km²

How many times has Las Cruces burned?

Las Cruces has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Las Cruces fire, 25 April 2024, with 1,648 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,589 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,569 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
11
fires
6
years with fire
9,589
cumulative ha
7,569
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 Las Cruces

  1. 1,648 ha Las Cruces fire, 25 April 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,640 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,121 ha Las Cruces fire, 18 April 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,271 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,432 ha Las Cruces fire, 13 April 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,964 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 285 ha La Libertad fire, May 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,009 ha Las Cruces fire, 24 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 913 ha Las Cruces fire, 20 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,071 ha Las Cruces fire, May 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 134 ha La Libertad fire, 17 April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,261 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 830 ha Las Cruces fire, 26 May 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,142 ha Las Cruces fire, 7 May 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,137 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 5 ha San Francisco fire, 10 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,242 ha in total · 11 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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