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Wildfires in Guajiquiro

Guajiquiro, Honduras, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 16,099 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 46% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Fri 13 Very low 32° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Low 30° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Low 31° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 30° · 43 % · 42 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 31° · 41 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 30° · 38 % · 51 km/h
  7. Thu 19 High 30° · 43 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 30° · 41 % · 50 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 Guajiquiro: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

16,099
hectares burned
46 %
of its area
7
fires
350
km²

How many times has Guajiquiro burned?

Guajiquiro has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Guajiquiro fire, April 2022, with 4,681 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,099 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,035 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
16,099
cumulative ha
11,035
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 Guajiquiro

  1. 4,681 ha Guajiquiro fire, April 2022 where it started 13% of the municipality · 4,654 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 2,037 ha Guajiquiro fire, March 2021 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 433 ha San Sebastian fire, April 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 1,683 ha Guajiquiro fire, 31 March 2020 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 2,923 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,490 ha Guajiquiro fire, 1 March 2020 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,812 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 4,452 ha Guajiquiro fire, April 2018 where it started 13% of the municipality · 4,427 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 1,323 ha Lamaní fire, March 2017 3.8% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 10 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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