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Wildfires in Talanga

Talanga, Honduras, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 19,947 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 46% 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. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 59 % · 23 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

19,947
hectares burned
46 %
of its area
24
fires
433
km²

How many times has Talanga burned?

Talanga has burned 24 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Talanga fire, September 2026, with 1,388 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,947 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,186 hectares, 35 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
24
fires
7
years with fire
19,947
cumulative ha
15,186
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 Talanga

  1. 1,388 ha Talanga fire, September 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 0 ha Guaimaca fire, 14 May 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,933 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 431 ha San Juan de Flores fire, 6 May 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 506 ha Talanga fire, May 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,092 ha San Juan de Flores fire, April 2023 2.5% of the municipality · 4,449 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 431 ha Guaimaca fire, 3 April 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 6,045 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 864 ha Cedros fire, March 2023 2.0% of the municipality · 3,100 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 1 ha Guaimaca fire, April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,816 ha Talanga fire, 23 April 2020 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 2,308 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 74 ha Distrito Central fire, 17 April 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,150 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 2,049 ha Talanga fire, 9 April 2020 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 3,640 ha Talanga fire, 4 April 2020 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 4,426 ha in total · 25 days
  13. 382 ha Distrito Central fire, 27 March 2020 0.9% of the municipality · 1,997 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 786 ha Cedros fire, 25 March 2020 1.8% of the municipality · 16,093 ha in total · 43 days
  15. 1,141 ha Talanga fire, April 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,275 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 507 ha Guaimaca fire, 22 March 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 218 ha Distrito Central fire, 15 March 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 471 ha San Juan de Flores fire, March 2019 1.1% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 1,076 ha Talanga fire, April 2018 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 135 ha Distrito Central fire, 8 April 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 640 ha San Juan de Flores fire, April 2018 1.5% of the municipality · 1,289 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 29 ha Guaimaca fire, 26 March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,165 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 1,175 ha Talanga fire, March 2018 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,342 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 1,096 ha Cedros fire, 21 March 2017 2.5% of the municipality · 2,160 ha in total · 7 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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