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HN · Honduras · Francisco Morazán · 1,126,534 inhabitants

Wildfires in Distrito Central

Distrito Central, Honduras, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 50,527 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 33% 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. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 57 % · 40 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 52 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 26° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 65 % · 27 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

50,527
hectares burned
33 %
of its area
37
fires
1,512
km²

How many times has Distrito Central burned?

Distrito Central has burned 37 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Distrito Central fire, 21 May 2026, with 1,790 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 50,527 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,452 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 13× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
37
fires
10
years with fire
50,527
cumulative ha
32,452
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 Distrito Central

  1. 1,790 ha Distrito Central fire, 21 May 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,779 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,012 ha Distrito Central fire, 17 May 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 308 ha Distrito Central fire, May 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,285 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,451 ha Distrito Central fire, March 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,441 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,073 ha Distrito Central fire, April 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,066 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 968 ha Distrito Central fire, 23 March 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,363 ha Distrito Central fire, 19 March 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,131 ha Distrito Central fire, February 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,127 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,472 ha Distrito Central fire, May 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 432 ha Talanga fire, May 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,592 ha Distrito Central fire, March 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,577 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 1,377 ha Distrito Central fire, 27 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,237 ha Distrito Central fire, 27 April 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,229 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,541 ha Distrito Central fire, 23 April 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 1,122 ha Distrito Central fire, 18 April 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 2,617 ha Distrito Central fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,150 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 883 ha San Buenaventura fire, April 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 3,511 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 1,400 ha Distrito Central fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,433 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 52 ha Talanga fire, 9 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 4,539 ha Distrito Central fire, 9 April 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 4,534 ha in total · 21 days
  21. 1,417 ha Distrito Central fire, 4 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,846 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 791 ha Distrito Central fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 1,427 ha Distrito Central fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,461 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,628 ha Distrito Central fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,997 ha in total · 17 days
  25. 1,843 ha Distrito Central fire, April 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,831 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 846 ha Distrito Central fire, 20 March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,760 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,155 ha Distrito Central fire, 15 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 1,218 ha Distrito Central fire, 14 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 3,578 ha Distrito Central fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,909 ha in total · 23 days
  30. 965 ha Distrito Central fire, 8 April 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 1,159 ha Distrito Central fire, 1 April 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 949 ha Villa de San Antonio fire, 20 March 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 2,265 ha in total · 13 days
  33. 7 ha Villa de San Antonio fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,366 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 124 ha Lepaterique fire, April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 1,242 ha Distrito Central fire, March 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,242 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 1,955 ha Distrito Central fire, February 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,942 ha in total · 12 days
  37. 1,865 ha Distrito Central fire, May 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,897 ha in total · 9 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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