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Wildfires in Lepaterique

Lepaterique, Honduras, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 10,090 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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. Mon 2 Low 26° · 46 % · 44 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 26° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 25° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 23° · 67 % · 23 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

10,090
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
13
fires
569
km²

How many times has Lepaterique burned?

Lepaterique has burned 13 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Lepaterique fire, March 2026, with 2,080 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,090 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,665 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
13
fires
7
years with fire
10,090
cumulative ha
8,665
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 Lepaterique

  1. 2,080 ha Lepaterique fire, March 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 792 ha Aguanqueterique fire, April 2024 1.4% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 40 ha Aguanqueterique fire, February 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,106 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 87 ha Lamaní fire, April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,646 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 85 ha Distrito Central fire, 18 April 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,114 ha Lepaterique fire, April 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,285 ha Lepaterique fire, March 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,592 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 584 ha Distrito Central fire, 20 March 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 1,760 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,876 ha Aguanqueterique fire, March 2019 3.3% of the municipality · 7,940 ha in total · 25 days
  10. 353 ha Distrito Central fire, 9 March 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 3,909 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 1,264 ha Lepaterique fire, March 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,257 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 521 ha Lepaterique fire, April 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 7 ha Distrito Central fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,242 ha in total · 7 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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