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Wildfires in San Luis

San Luis, Guatemala, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 8,725 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very 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. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 57 % · 18 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 59 % · 17 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 32° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 63 % · 27 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

8,725
hectares burned
2.8 %
of its area
6
fires
3,107
km²

How many times has San Luis burned?

San Luis has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: San Luis fire, June 2024, with 1,643 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,725 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,246 hectares, 2.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
8,725
cumulative ha
7,246
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 San Luis

  1. 1,643 ha San Luis fire, June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,632 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,115 ha San Luis fire, June 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 1,896 ha San Luis fire, April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,884 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 1,278 ha San Luis fire, March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,443 ha San Luis fire, May 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,436 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 1,350 ha San Luis fire, March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,342 ha in total · 5 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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