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GT · Guatemala · Alta Verapaz · 28,421 inhabitants

Wildfires in Tucurú

Tucurú, Guatemala, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,141 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Very low 25° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 46 % · 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

4,141
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
6
fires
220
km²

How many times has Tucurú burned?

Tucurú has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Senahú fire, April 2024, with 207 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,141 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,299 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. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
5
years with fire
4,141
cumulative ha
3,299
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 Tucurú

  1. 207 ha Senahú fire, April 2024 0.9% of the municipality · 1,167 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 766 ha Senahú fire, April 2021 3.5% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 1,292 ha Tucurú fire, April 2021 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 1,285 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 706 ha Tucurú fire, April 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 183 ha Purulhá fire, April 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 1,029 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 988 ha Tucurú fire, April 2016 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 1,086 ha in total · 11 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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