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Wildfires in Esquías

Esquías, Honduras, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 12,158 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% 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. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 62 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 53 % · 29 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 24° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 24° · 88 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 24° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 25° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 24° · 76 % · 28 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 Esquías: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

12,158
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
10
fires
392
km²

How many times has Esquías burned?

Esquías has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Esquías fire, May 2023, with 1,304 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,158 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,220 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
4
years with fire
12,158
cumulative ha
10,220
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 Esquías

  1. 1,304 ha Esquías fire, May 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,297 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 46 ha San Luís fire, May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,510 ha Esquías fire, 15 April 2023 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 2,349 ha Esquías fire, 5 April 2023 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 3,787 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 3 ha Vallecillo fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,992 ha Esquías fire, March 2020 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 1,980 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 2,084 ha Orica fire, 19 March 2020 5.3% of the municipality · 61,140 ha in total · 50 days
  8. 109 ha San Luís fire, May 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 2,352 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,236 ha Esquías fire, April 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,320 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 522 ha Esquías fire, February 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,213 ha in total · 4 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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