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Wildfires in La Esperanza

La Esperanza, Honduras, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 4,567 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% 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 2 Very low 21° · 70 % · 33 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 22° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 22° · 47 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 21° · 70 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 19° · 87 % · 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

4,567
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
4
fires
157
km²

How many times has La Esperanza burned?

La Esperanza has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: La Esperanza fire, April 2023, with 1,963 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,567 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,610 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
4,567
cumulative ha
3,610
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 La Esperanza

  1. 1,963 ha La Esperanza fire, April 2023 where it started 13% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,242 ha La Esperanza fire, March 2022 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 306 ha Yamaranguila fire, March 2019 2.0% of the municipality · 3,023 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,055 ha La Esperanza fire, May 2018 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 10 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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