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Wildfires in Aguanqueterique

Aguanqueterique, Honduras, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 9,491 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 50% 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 4 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 40 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 40 % · 29 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Moderate 31° · 36 % · 41 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 28° · 54 % · 40 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 30° · 36 % · 43 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Moderate 30° · 35 % · 54 km/h
  7. Tue 10 High 30° · 41 % · 49 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Moderate 31° · 44 % · 45 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Aguanqueterique: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,491
hectares burned
50 %
of its area
5
fires
191
km²

How many times has Aguanqueterique burned?

Aguanqueterique has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Aguanqueterique fire, April 2024, with 1,686 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,491 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,270 hectares, 33 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
9,491
cumulative ha
6,270
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 Honduras

Fires that entered Aguanqueterique

  1. 1,686 ha Aguanqueterique fire, April 2024 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,073 ha Aguanqueterique fire, February 2024 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 1,106 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 530 ha Lamaní fire, April 2023 2.8% of the municipality · 1,646 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 172 ha Guajiquiro fire, March 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 6,031 ha Aguanqueterique fire, March 2019 where it started 32% of the municipality · 7,940 ha in total · 25 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/ICF - Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal, Áreas Protegidas y Vida Silvestre, Gobierno de la República de Honduras (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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