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Wildfires in Brus Laguna

Brus Laguna, Honduras, has had 35 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 54,562 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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 2 Very low 29° · 73 % · 30 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 86 % · 33 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 78 % · 30 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 65 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 71 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 91 % · 23 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 75 % · 31 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

54,562
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
35
fires
4,446
km²

How many times has Brus Laguna burned?

Brus Laguna has burned 35 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Juan Francisco Bulnes fire, 24 May 2024, with 644 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 54,562 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 41,863 hectares, 9.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 12× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 8× 23
  9. 11× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
35
fires
6
years with fire
54,562
cumulative ha
41,863
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 Brus Laguna

  1. 644 ha Juan Francisco Bulnes fire, 24 May 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,112 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,907 ha Brus Laguna fire, 13 May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 1,258 ha Brus Laguna fire, 12 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,249 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 336 ha Dulce Nombre de Culmí fire, 11 May 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,260 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 1,213 ha Brus Laguna fire, 11 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,207 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 1,341 ha Brus Laguna fire, 7 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 1,186 ha Brus Laguna fire, 6 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,213 ha Brus Laguna fire, 6 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,207 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 15 ha Juan Francisco Bulnes fire, 6 May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 1,206 ha Brus Laguna fire, 1 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,827 ha Brus Laguna fire, March 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,816 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,240 ha Brus Laguna fire, 23 May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,233 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,918 ha Brus Laguna fire, 21 May 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,900 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 1,185 ha Brus Laguna fire, 19 May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,295 ha Brus Laguna fire, 14 May 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,286 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 1,227 ha Brus Laguna fire, 2 May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 1,135 ha Brus Laguna fire, 30 April 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 1,014 ha Brus Laguna fire, 21 April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 407 ha Juan Francisco Bulnes fire, April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,174 ha in total · 23 days
  20. 4,618 ha Brus Laguna fire, March 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,588 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 1,699 ha Brus Laguna fire, 13 May 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,688 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 2,099 ha Brus Laguna fire, 2 May 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,086 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 1,081 ha Brus Laguna fire, 29 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,075 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 1,309 ha Brus Laguna fire, 27 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,300 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 2,507 ha Brus Laguna fire, 22 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,490 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 1,357 ha Brus Laguna fire, 20 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 4,691 ha Brus Laguna fire, 19 April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,661 ha in total · 17 days
  28. 287 ha Juan Francisco Bulnes fire, April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 14 days
  29. 3,173 ha Brus Laguna fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,161 ha in total · 21 days
  30. 1,580 ha Brus Laguna fire, 13 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,573 ha in total · 15 days
  31. 1,235 ha Brus Laguna fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 14 days
  32. 1,182 ha Brus Laguna fire, February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 1,774 ha Brus Laguna fire, May 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,762 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,106 ha Brus Laguna fire, March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 1 day
  35. 1,301 ha Brus Laguna fire, May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,296 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/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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