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Wildfires in Sipacate

Sipacate, Guatemala, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 3,552 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 62 % · 29 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

3,552
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
3
fires
270
km²

How many times has Sipacate burned?

Sipacate has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sipacate fire, March 2026, with 1,245 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
3,552
cumulative ha
4 Mar 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 Sipacate

  1. 1,245 ha Sipacate fire, March 2026 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 2,185 ha in total · 41 days
  2. 1,202 ha Sipacate fire, December 2025 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 1,239 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 1,105 ha Sipacate fire, March 2021 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 1,099 ha in total · 2 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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