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GT · Guatemala · Escuintla · 62,127 inhabitants

Wildfires in Palín

Palín, Guatemala, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 254 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% 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 23° · 48 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 23° · 48 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 45 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 32 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 42 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 44 % · 35 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

254
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
4
fires
112
km²

How many times has Palín burned?

Palín has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Escuintla fire, 29 January 2026, with 246 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
254
cumulative ha
29 Jan 2026
most recent

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 Palín

  1. 246 ha Escuintla fire, 29 January 2026 2.2% of the municipality · 1,258 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 5 ha Escuintla fire, 19 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2 ha Escuintla fire, February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1 ha Escuintla fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,866 ha in total · 13 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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