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Wildfires in Silca

Silca, Honduras, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,489 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 33% 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. Fri 23 Very low 26° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 50 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 57 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 65 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 62 % · 34 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

8,489
hectares burned
33 %
of its area
9
fires
255
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Silca

  1. 1,460 ha Silca fire, April 2024 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 2,365 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 642 ha Silca fire, April 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,945 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,015 ha Manto fire, April 2020 4.0% of the municipality · 4,264 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,104 ha Silca fire, 21 April 2020 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,134 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,001 ha Silca fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 10 ha Manto fire, 27 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 197 ha Salamá fire, 27 March 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,625 ha Silca fire, March 2019 where it started 10% of the municipality · 3,097 ha in total · 23 days
  9. 433 ha Juticalpa fire, April 2017 1.7% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 5 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).