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Wildfires in Olanchito

Olanchito, Honduras, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 19,120 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.4% 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. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 47 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 68 % · 18 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 83 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 67 % · 25 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

19,120
hectares burned
9.4 %
of its area
16
fires
2,033
km²

How many times has Olanchito burned?

Olanchito has burned 16 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Olanchito fire, August 2026, with 1,176 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,120 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,048 hectares, 8.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 7× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
16
fires
5
years with fire
19,120
cumulative ha
17,048
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 Olanchito

  1. 1,176 ha Olanchito fire, August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,352 ha Olanchito fire, May 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3 ha Yoro fire, 8 May 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,604 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,094 ha Olanchito fire, May 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,087 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,858 ha Olanchito fire, May 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,846 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,232 ha Olanchito fire, 17 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,225 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,112 ha Olanchito fire, 14 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,105 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,150 ha Olanchito fire, 14 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,364 ha Olanchito fire, 13 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 3,076 ha Olanchito fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,058 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 2,171 ha Olanchito fire, 1 April 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 236 ha Esquipulas del Norte fire, 19 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 173 ha Gualaco fire, 8 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 1,471 ha Olanchito fire, April 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,638 ha in total · 25 days
  15. 1,465 ha Olanchito fire, April 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,457 ha in total · 20 days
  16. 187 ha La Unión fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,943 ha in total · 20 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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