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Wildfires in Juticalpa

Juticalpa, Honduras, has had 41 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 66,054 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% 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 30° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 58 % · 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

66,054
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
41
fires
2,622
km²

How many times has Juticalpa burned?

Juticalpa has burned 41 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Juticalpa fire, 10 May 2026, with 1,888 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 8× 26
41
fires
10
years with fire
66,054
cumulative ha
10 May 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 Juticalpa

  1. 1,888 ha Juticalpa fire, 10 May 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,876 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,062 ha Juticalpa fire, 10 May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,182 ha Juticalpa fire, 8 May 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,168 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,304 ha Juticalpa fire, 6 May 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,297 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,440 ha Juticalpa fire, 25 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,432 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 0 ha Catacamas fire, 21 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 1,655 ha Juticalpa fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,646 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,942 ha Danlí fire, 5 April 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 9,929 ha in total · 26 days
  9. 963 ha Juticalpa fire, May 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,185 ha Juticalpa fire, 19 May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,178 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,245 ha Juticalpa fire, 16 May 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,238 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,761 ha Juticalpa fire, 1 May 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,751 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 1,012 ha Juticalpa fire, 11 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,041 ha Juticalpa fire, 2 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 1,861 ha Juticalpa fire, March 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,849 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 1,222 ha Juticalpa fire, April 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,216 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,184 ha Silca fire, April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 1,945 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 1,434 ha Juticalpa fire, 15 April 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 1,102 ha Danlí fire, 11 April 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 7,373 ha in total · 15 days
  20. 1,220 ha Juticalpa fire, 11 April 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,213 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 1,471 ha Juticalpa fire, March 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 1,274 ha Juticalpa fire, 21 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,278 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 1,057 ha Juticalpa fire, 18 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 1,279 ha Manto fire, April 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 4,264 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 1,238 ha Juticalpa fire, 14 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,231 ha in total · 21 days
  26. 1,518 ha Juticalpa fire, 7 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,174 ha in total · 20 days
  27. 3,736 ha Juticalpa fire, 5 April 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,357 ha in total · 26 days
  28. 9,372 ha Juticalpa fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 9,313 ha in total · 27 days
  29. 2,463 ha Juticalpa fire, 29 March 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,458 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 3,422 ha Juticalpa fire, 28 March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,697 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 1,082 ha Juticalpa fire, 25 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 2,370 ha Juticalpa fire, 20 March 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,475 ha in total · 20 days
  33. 493 ha Danlí fire, 16 March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 6,300 ha in total · 16 days
  34. 2 ha Catacamas fire, 4 April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,017 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 1,640 ha Juticalpa fire, March 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,630 ha in total · 5 days
  36. 667 ha Juticalpa fire, April 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 10 days
  37. 1,020 ha Juticalpa fire, May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 1,016 ha Juticalpa fire, 9 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 1,318 ha Juticalpa fire, 4 April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,466 ha in total · 14 days
  40. 1,172 ha Juticalpa fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 1,737 ha Juticalpa fire, March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,727 ha in total · 9 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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