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Wildfires in Salamá

Salamá, Guatemala, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 4,722 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 27° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 55 % · 28 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

4,722
hectares burned
7.0 %
of its area
3
fires
679
km²

How many times has Salamá burned?

Salamá has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2024. The most recent: Salamá fire, 7 April 2024, with 1,971 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,722 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,561 hectares, 5.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
4,722
cumulative ha
3,561
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 Salamá

  1. 1,971 ha Salamá fire, 7 April 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,701 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 1,341 ha Salamá fire, 2 April 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,333 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,410 ha Salamá fire, May 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,401 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).

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