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Communes that have burned most often in Haiti

Communes of Haiti with at least one fire larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 8. With two or more: 3. Top of the list is Croix des Bouquets, which has burned 3 times in 3 years, with 5,317 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1Croix des BouquetsDépartement de l'Ouest3×3 years · 5,317 ha
  2. 2Fonds VerrettesDépartement de l'Ouest2×2 years · 1,450 ha
  3. 3Belle AnseDépartement du Sud-Est2×2 years · 242 ha
  4. 4ChantalSud Department1×1 year · 725 ha
  5. 5ChardonnieresSud Department1×1 year · 568 ha
  6. 6GanthierDépartement de l'Ouest1×1 year · 422 ha
  7. 7BeaumontDépartement de la Grande-Anse1×1 year · 369 ha
  8. 8RoseauxDépartement de la Grande-Anse1×1 year · 58 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1Croix des BouquetsDépartement de l'Ouest5,317 ha3× · 8.2 %
  2. 2Fonds VerrettesDépartement de l'Ouest1,450 ha2× · 4.9 %
  3. 3ChantalSud Department725 ha1× · 4.8 %
  4. 4ChardonnieresSud Department568 ha1× · 4.9 %
  5. 5GanthierDépartement de l'Ouest422 ha1× · 0.8 %
  6. 6BeaumontDépartement de la Grande-Anse369 ha1× · 2.2 %
  7. 7Belle AnseDépartement du Sud-Est242 ha2× · 0.6 %
  8. 8RoseauxDépartement de la Grande-Anse58 ha1× · 0.3 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1Croix des BouquetsDépartement de l'Ouest8.2 %5,317 ha · 645 km²
  2. 2ChardonnieresSud Department4.9 %568 ha · 115 km²
  3. 3Fonds VerrettesDépartement de l'Ouest4.9 %1,450 ha · 297 km²
  4. 4ChantalSud Department4.8 %725 ha · 151 km²
  5. 5BeaumontDépartement de la Grande-Anse2.2 %369 ha · 169 km²
  6. 6GanthierDépartement de l'Ouest0.8 %422 ha · 505 km²
  7. 7Belle AnseDépartement du Sud-Est0.6 %242 ha · 387 km²
  8. 8RoseauxDépartement de la Grande-Anse0.3 %58 ha · 215 km²

How it is calculated

We count fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached each municipality, even partly. Hectares are those burned inside the municipality and are added fire by fire, so land that burned twice counts twice; that is why the share, given only for municipalities of 10 km² or more, can exceed 100 % (it is then shown as a multiple). It describes what happened: it does not measure risk or say anything about causes.