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Wildfires in Orica

Orica, Honduras, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 36,212 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 90% 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. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 27° · 70 % · 28 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

36,212
hectares burned
90 %
of its area
20
fires
402
km²

How many times has Orica burned?

Orica has burned 20 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Orica fire, 17 May 2026, with 1,759 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,212 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 20,880 hectares, 52 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
20
fires
7
years with fire
36,212
cumulative ha
20,880
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 Orica

  1. 1,759 ha Orica fire, 17 May 2026 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 3,290 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,619 ha Orica fire, 14 May 2026 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,956 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 55 ha Guaimaca fire, 5 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,563 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,030 ha Orica fire, 19 April 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 1,389 ha Orica fire, 11 April 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 1,491 ha Orica fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,483 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,327 ha San Ignacio fire, 2 April 2023 3.3% of the municipality · 4,736 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 1,139 ha Orica fire, March 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,302 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 3,698 ha Orica fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 4,510 ha in total · 31 days
  10. 2,144 ha Guayape fire, March 2020 5.3% of the municipality · 15,714 ha in total · 37 days
  11. 3,454 ha Cedros fire, 20 March 2020 8.6% of the municipality · 22,862 ha in total · 49 days
  12. 8,210 ha Orica fire, 19 March 2020 where it started 20% of the municipality · 63,428 ha in total · 50 days
  13. 2,069 ha Orica fire, 24 April 2019 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 1,190 ha Orica fire, 16 April 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,182 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 2,693 ha Orica fire, March 2019 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 2,764 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 249 ha Guaimaca fire, 14 March 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 16 ha Guayape fire, 5 April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,441 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 932 ha Orica fire, April 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 243 ha San Ignacio fire, April 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 4,038 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 1,507 ha Orica fire, April 2017 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,499 ha in total · 8 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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