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Wildfires in Catacamas

Catacamas, Honduras, has had 49 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 81,219 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 56 % · 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

81,219
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
49
fires
7,309
km²

How many times has Catacamas burned?

Catacamas has burned 49 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Dulce Nombre de Culmí fire, May 2026, with 576 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 10× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 12× 24
  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
49
fires
8
years with fire
81,219
cumulative ha
4 May 2026
most recent

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 Catacamas

  1. 576 ha Dulce Nombre de Culmí fire, May 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,471 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 2,099 ha Catacamas fire, 3 May 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,086 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 1,532 ha Catacamas fire, 3 May 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,522 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,140 ha Catacamas fire, 28 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,134 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,174 ha Catacamas fire, 27 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,422 ha Catacamas fire, 27 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,413 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 1,899 ha Catacamas fire, 21 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 840 ha Catacamas fire, 15 May 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 1,049 ha Catacamas fire, 12 May 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 1,741 ha Catacamas fire, 12 May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,730 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 1,511 ha Catacamas fire, 11 May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 1,805 ha Catacamas fire, 5 May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,795 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 1,486 ha Catacamas fire, 3 May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,474 ha in total · 20 days
  14. 3,035 ha Catacamas fire, 2 May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,016 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 2,228 ha Catacamas fire, 29 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,217 ha in total · 31 days
  16. 3,566 ha Dulce Nombre de Culmí fire, 28 April 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 7,118 ha in total · 32 days
  17. 1,313 ha Catacamas fire, 27 April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,306 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 1,121 ha Catacamas fire, 29 March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 1,206 ha Catacamas fire, 27 March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 9 ha Dulce Nombre de Culmí fire, May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,118 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 1,894 ha Catacamas fire, 2 May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,882 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 1,098 ha Catacamas fire, 1 May 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 1,505 ha Catacamas fire, 30 April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,495 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 1,249 ha Catacamas fire, 26 April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,242 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 1,190 ha Catacamas fire, 25 April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,183 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 1,622 ha Catacamas fire, 8 May 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,612 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 838 ha Catacamas fire, 7 May 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 77 ha San Francisco de Becerra fire, April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 588 ha Dulce Nombre de Culmí fire, May 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,338 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 1,205 ha Catacamas fire, April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,198 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 1,246 ha Catacamas fire, 23 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,237 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 2,316 ha Catacamas fire, 22 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 12 days
  33. 1,183 ha Catacamas fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,174 ha in total · 17 days
  34. 2,146 ha Catacamas fire, 14 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,130 ha in total · 19 days
  35. 1,318 ha Catacamas fire, 14 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,309 ha in total · 17 days
  36. 1,267 ha Catacamas fire, 12 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,260 ha in total · 14 days
  37. 1,144 ha Catacamas fire, 11 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,138 ha in total · 12 days
  38. 8,117 ha Catacamas fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 12,891 ha in total · 30 days
  39. 1,098 ha Catacamas fire, May 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 1,117 ha Catacamas fire, March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,110 ha in total · 11 days
  41. 1,189 ha Catacamas fire, May 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,182 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 3,151 ha Catacamas fire, 6 April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,134 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 1,053 ha Catacamas fire, 5 April 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,046 ha in total · 11 days
  44. 3,903 ha Catacamas fire, 4 April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,017 ha in total · 12 days
  45. 91 ha Dulce Nombre de Culmí fire, 4 May 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,181 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 1,240 ha Catacamas fire, 7 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 11 days
  47. 882 ha Catacamas fire, 5 April 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,139 ha in total · 18 days
  48. 1,203 ha Catacamas fire, 31 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,194 ha in total · 12 days
  49. 5,536 ha Catacamas fire, 28 March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,504 ha in total · 20 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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