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Wildfires in Guata

Guata, Honduras, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,876 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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. Fri 23 Very low 25° · 86 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 65 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 67 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 54 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 69 % · 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

14,876
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
13
fires
676
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Guata

  1. 285 ha Esquipulas del Norte fire, 16 May 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,091 ha Guata fire, 22 April 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 841 ha Guata fire, 9 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 434 ha Gualaco fire, 20 April 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 7 ha Olanchito fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,638 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,368 ha Guata fire, 12 April 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,360 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,284 ha Guata fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,414 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 257 ha Gualaco fire, 9 April 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 3,236 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 4,686 ha Guata fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 6.9% of the municipality · 5,075 ha in total · 23 days
  10. 2,654 ha Guata fire, 6 April 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,638 ha in total · 19 days
  11. 928 ha Guata fire, April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,619 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 962 ha Guata fire, April 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 78 ha Jano fire, April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,757 ha in total · 6 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).