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Wildfires in Sacapulas

Sacapulas, Guatemala, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 8,142 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 25 Low 24° · 41 % · 39 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 25° · 41 % · 35 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 25° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 25° · 44 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 26° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 26° · 33 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 27° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 27° · 36 % · 36 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

8,142
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
5
fires
370
km²

How many times has Sacapulas burned?

Sacapulas has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Sacapulas fire, March 2025, with 2,316 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,142 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,485 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
5
years with fire
8,142
cumulative ha
5,485
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 Sacapulas

  1. 2,316 ha Sacapulas fire, March 2025 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,271 ha Sacapulas fire, April 2023 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,137 ha Sacapulas fire, April 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,130 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,348 ha Sacapulas fire, February 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,340 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,071 ha Sacapulas fire, April 2016 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 9 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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