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Wildfires in San Esteban

San Esteban, Honduras, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 47,853 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% 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 1 Very low 28° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 77 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 24° · 88 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 65 % · 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

47,853
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
23
fires
1,914
km²

How many times has San Esteban burned?

San Esteban has burned 23 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: San Esteban fire, 9 May 2026, with 4,437 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,853 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 36,238 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 8× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
23
fires
6
years with fire
47,853
cumulative ha
36,238
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 San Esteban

  1. 4,437 ha San Esteban fire, 9 May 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,972 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 1,746 ha San Esteban fire, 5 May 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,736 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 1,291 ha San Esteban fire, 13 May 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,312 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 256 ha Gualaco fire, 7 May 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,521 ha San Esteban fire, 5 May 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,512 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 2,972 ha San Esteban fire, 3 May 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,954 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 3,025 ha San Esteban fire, 1 May 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,008 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 1,204 ha San Esteban fire, 17 May 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,196 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,224 ha San Esteban fire, 16 May 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 1,222 ha San Esteban fire, 4 May 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,214 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,127 ha San Esteban fire, 4 May 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,305 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 1,157 ha San Esteban fire, 30 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,151 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1,435 ha San Esteban fire, 9 April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 217 ha Gualaco fire, 8 April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 15,182 ha San Esteban fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 15,095 ha in total · 30 days
  16. 1,198 ha San Esteban fire, 29 April 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,191 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,059 ha San Esteban fire, 26 April 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 1,252 ha San Esteban fire, 26 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,246 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 643 ha San Esteban fire, 21 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,456 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 3,127 ha San Esteban fire, 19 April 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,310 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 1,569 ha San Esteban fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,560 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 2 ha Gualaco fire, 3 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,844 ha in total · 31 days
  23. 987 ha San Esteban fire, May 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 9 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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