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Wildfires in Teculután

Teculután, Guatemala, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 9,368 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 26 Very low 25° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 74 % · 22 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

9,368
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
5
fires
213
km²

How many times has Teculután burned?

Teculután has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Teculután fire, April 2026, with 2,060 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,368 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,009 hectares, 33 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
9,368
cumulative ha
7,009
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 Teculután

  1. 2,060 ha Teculután fire, April 2026 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,875 ha Teculután fire, May 2024 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 1,864 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 1,615 ha Teculután fire, April 2024 where it started 7.6% of the municipality · 2,095 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 30 ha Río Hondo fire, May 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,471 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 3,788 ha Teculután fire, April 2020 where it started 18% of the municipality · 6,093 ha in total · 24 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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