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Wildfires in Guaimaca

Guaimaca, Honduras, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 63,609 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 81% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 27° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 59 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 51 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

63,609
hectares burned
81 %
of its area
38
fires
786
km²

How many times has Guaimaca burned?

Guaimaca has burned 38 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Guaimaca fire, 14 May 2026, with 5,659 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 63,609 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 41,712 hectares, 53 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 8× 18
  4. 9× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 9× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
38
fires
10
years with fire
63,609
cumulative ha
41,712
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 Guaimaca

  1. 5,659 ha Guaimaca fire, 14 May 2026 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 6,933 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,121 ha Guaimaca fire, 10 May 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,243 ha Guaimaca fire, May 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,518 ha Guaimaca fire, 5 May 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,563 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,701 ha Guaimaca fire, 4 May 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,766 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,071 ha Guaimaca fire, 2 May 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,114 ha Guaimaca fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 4,477 ha Guaimaca fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 6,045 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 574 ha San Ignacio fire, 2 April 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 4,736 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 1,831 ha Guaimaca fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,820 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,386 ha Guaimaca fire, 31 March 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,377 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 1 ha San Juan de Flores fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,449 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 793 ha Teupasenti fire, 16 April 2022 1.0% of the municipality · 1,659 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 1,074 ha Guaimaca fire, April 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 877 ha Guaimaca fire, 26 April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,374 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 506 ha Talanga fire, 23 April 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 2,308 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,241 ha Guaimaca fire, 19 April 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,269 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 1,178 ha Guaimaca fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,171 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 6,619 ha Cedros fire, 20 March 2020 8.4% of the municipality · 22,862 ha in total · 49 days
  20. 1,164 ha Guaimaca fire, 24 April 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 1,917 ha Guaimaca fire, 24 April 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,906 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 229 ha Teupasenti fire, March 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 1,182 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 1,148 ha Talanga fire, March 2019 1.5% of the municipality · 2,275 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 1,432 ha Guaimaca fire, 26 March 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,424 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 1,936 ha Guaimaca fire, 22 March 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 2,120 ha Guaimaca fire, 15 March 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 2,398 ha Guaimaca fire, 14 March 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 17 days
  28. 2,955 ha Guaimaca fire, 14 March 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 599 ha San Ignacio fire, 21 April 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 1,401 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 216 ha Talanga fire, April 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 1,106 ha Guaimaca fire, 6 April 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 15 days
  32. 3,596 ha Guaimaca fire, 4 April 2018 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 3,575 ha in total · 12 days
  33. 25 ha San Ignacio fire, March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,038 ha in total · 18 days
  34. 1,912 ha Guaimaca fire, 28 March 2018 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,900 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 3,154 ha Guaimaca fire, 26 March 2018 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,165 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 1,379 ha Guaimaca fire, 19 March 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,371 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 1,177 ha Guaimaca fire, April 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 1,161 ha Guaimaca fire, April 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,155 ha in total · 13 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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