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Wildfires in Guayape

Guayape, Honduras, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 26,029 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 63% 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. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 52 % · 43 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 46 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 27° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 28° · 47 % · 30 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

26,029
hectares burned
63 %
of its area
12
fires
416
km²

How many times has Guayape burned?

Guayape has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Orica fire, 17 May 2026, with 1,549 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,029 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 20,345 hectares, 49 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
12
fires
6
years with fire
26,029
cumulative ha
20,345
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 Guayape

  1. 1,549 ha Orica fire, 17 May 2026 3.7% of the municipality · 3,290 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 216 ha Salamá fire, May 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 1,950 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 1,029 ha Guayape fire, March 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 25 ha Orica fire, 19 April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 9,541 ha Guayape fire, March 2020 where it started 23% of the municipality · 15,714 ha in total · 37 days
  6. 8,495 ha Orica fire, 19 March 2020 20% of the municipality · 63,428 ha in total · 50 days
  7. 41 ha Orica fire, 24 April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 1,840 ha Guayape fire, April 2019 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 1,828 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 1,434 ha Guayape fire, 5 April 2018 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,441 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 285 ha Orica fire, April 2018 0.7% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 1,109 ha Guayape fire, 1 April 2018 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 465 ha Guayape fire, 1 April 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 15 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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