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Wildfires in Gualaco

Gualaco, Honduras, has had 50 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 85,342 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 73 % · 20 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 63 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 62 % · 31 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

85,342
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
50
fires
2,240
km²

How many times has Gualaco burned?

Gualaco has burned 50 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Gualaco fire, July 2026, with 1,519 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 15× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 17× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
50
fires
6
years with fire
85,342
cumulative ha
1 Jul 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 Gualaco

  1. 1,519 ha Gualaco fire, July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,511 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,084 ha Gualaco fire, June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,243 ha Gualaco fire, 13 May 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,333 ha Gualaco fire, 10 May 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,325 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 564 ha San Esteban fire, 9 May 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 4,972 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 1,191 ha Gualaco fire, 6 May 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 1,402 ha Gualaco fire, 5 May 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,395 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 1,484 ha Gualaco fire, 18 May 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,474 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 28 ha San Esteban fire, 13 May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,312 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 661 ha Gualaco fire, 13 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 853 ha Gualaco fire, 7 May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 801 ha Gualaco fire, 6 May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 1 ha San Esteban fire, 1 May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,008 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 1,225 ha Gualaco fire, 16 May 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,516 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 6 ha San Esteban fire, 16 May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 187 ha San Esteban fire, 4 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,305 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 2,660 ha Gualaco fire, 2 May 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,645 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 1,029 ha Gualaco fire, 30 April 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 3,914 ha Gualaco fire, 25 April 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,890 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 1,572 ha Gualaco fire, 15 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,563 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 2,247 ha Gualaco fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,233 ha in total · 24 days
  22. 1,384 ha Gualaco fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,375 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 502 ha Sabá fire, April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,347 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 892 ha Gualaco fire, 8 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 1,529 ha Gualaco fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,518 ha in total · 22 days
  26. 4,951 ha Gualaco fire, 29 March 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,925 ha in total · 22 days
  27. 1,879 ha Gualaco fire, 29 March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,868 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 134 ha Sabá fire, March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 1,416 ha Gualaco fire, 26 March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,408 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 610 ha Tocoa fire, March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,045 ha in total · 20 days
  31. 823 ha San Esteban fire, 21 April 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,456 ha in total · 9 days
  32. 1,227 ha Gualaco fire, 21 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 13 days
  33. 203 ha San Esteban fire, 19 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,310 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 601 ha Gualaco fire, 13 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 18 days
  35. 2,499 ha Gualaco fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,487 ha in total · 23 days
  36. 17 ha Tocoa fire, 8 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 17 days
  37. 1,037 ha Gualaco fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 164 ha Olanchito fire, April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,638 ha in total · 25 days
  39. 23 ha Guarizama fire, 5 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,534 ha in total · 26 days
  40. 1,978 ha Gualaco fire, 4 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,968 ha in total · 22 days
  41. 5,044 ha Gualaco fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,844 ha in total · 31 days
  42. 2,994 ha Gualaco fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,236 ha in total · 26 days
  43. 659 ha Guarizama fire, 2 April 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 7,597 ha in total · 29 days
  44. 1,207 ha Sabá fire, 1 April 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 2,879 ha in total · 20 days
  45. 19,845 ha Gualaco fire, March 2020 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 19,730 ha in total · 40 days
  46. 1,148 ha Gualaco fire, May 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 10 days
  47. 1,588 ha Gualaco fire, April 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,579 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 3,513 ha Gualaco fire, 29 March 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,494 ha in total · 11 days
  49. 1,424 ha Gualaco fire, 19 March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,416 ha in total · 22 days
  50. 1,049 ha Gualaco fire, April 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,044 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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