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Wildfires in Choluteca

Choluteca, Honduras, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 3,826 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 34° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 32° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 32° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 63 % · 19 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

3,826
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
4
fires
1,079
km²

How many times has Choluteca burned?

Choluteca has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Choluteca fire, April 2026, with 1,263 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
3,826
cumulative ha
12 Apr 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 Choluteca

  1. 1,263 ha Choluteca fire, April 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 114 ha Marcovia fire, March 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,474 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,072 ha Choluteca fire, April 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,066 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,376 ha Choluteca fire, January 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,368 ha in total · 2 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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