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Wildfires in Jacaleapa

Jacaleapa, Honduras, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,814 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% 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. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 51 % · 35 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 56 % · 33 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

3,814
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
9
fires
113
km²

How many times has Jacaleapa burned?

Jacaleapa has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Jacaleapa fire, May 2026, with 1,138 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,814 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,177 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
6
years with fire
3,814
cumulative ha
3,177
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 Jacaleapa

  1. 1,138 ha Jacaleapa fire, May 2026 where it started 10% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 30 ha Danlí fire, March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 65 ha Danlí fire, 26 April 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,384 ha Jacaleapa fire, April 2024 where it started 12% of the municipality · 1,695 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 7 ha Danlí fire, 3 April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 51 ha Danlí fire, 14 April 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,196 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 475 ha Potrerillos fire, March 2018 4.2% of the municipality · 1,198 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 238 ha Danlí fire, 15 April 2016 2.1% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 425 ha Danlí fire, 5 April 2016 3.8% of the municipality · 1,235 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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