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Wildfires in Salamá

Salamá, Honduras, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 23,531 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 70% 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. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 51 % · 41 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 47 % · 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

23,531
hectares burned
70 %
of its area
17
fires
336
km²

How many times has Salamá burned?

Salamá has burned 17 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: La Unión fire, 14 May 2026, with 577 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,531 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,907 hectares, 47 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
17
fires
6
years with fire
23,531
cumulative ha
15,907
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 Salamá

  1. 577 ha La Unión fire, 14 May 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 1,744 ha Salamá fire, May 2024 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 1,950 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 213 ha Silca fire, April 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 2,365 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 1,110 ha Salamá fire, 4 May 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,627 ha Salamá fire, 27 April 2023 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 1,914 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,045 ha Salamá fire, April 2023 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,370 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 130 ha Silca fire, April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 1,945 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 36 ha Silca fire, 19 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,134 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,229 ha Salamá fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 2,248 ha Salamá fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 2,235 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 3,176 ha Guayape fire, March 2020 9.4% of the municipality · 15,714 ha in total · 37 days
  12. 3,029 ha Manto fire, 18 March 2020 9.0% of the municipality · 51,924 ha in total · 50 days
  13. 1,073 ha Salamá fire, 27 March 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 170 ha Silca fire, March 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 3,097 ha in total · 23 days
  15. 988 ha El Rosario fire, March 2019 2.9% of the municipality · 2,390 ha in total · 25 days
  16. 4,430 ha Salamá fire, 11 March 2019 where it started 13% of the municipality · 6,965 ha in total · 30 days
  17. 707 ha Guayape fire, 1 April 2018 2.1% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 15 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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