Wildfires in Poptún
Poptún, Guatemala, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 6,479 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% 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- Fri 23 Very low 28° · 59 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 28° · 53 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 27° · 57 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 27° · 57 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 28° · 53 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 27° · 62 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 27° · 73 % · 25 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
- 6,479
- hectares burned
- 5.9 %
- of its area
- 4
- fires
- 1,095
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Poptún
- 2,523 ha Poptún fire, May 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,120 ha in total · 6 days
- 1,201 ha Poptún fire, April 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 5 days
- 553 ha Poptún fire, 11 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 14 days
- 2,202 ha Poptún fire, 7 April 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 8 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).