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Wildfires in Vallecillo

Vallecillo, Honduras, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,235 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 55% 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. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 52 % · 38 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 70 % · 41 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 76 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 57 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 73 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 54 % · 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

12,235
hectares burned
55 %
of its area
7
fires
221
km²

How many times has Vallecillo burned?

Vallecillo has burned 7 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Vallecillo fire, May 2026, with 1,100 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,235 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,711 hectares, 39 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
7
fires
6
years with fire
12,235
cumulative ha
8,711
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 Vallecillo

  1. 1,100 ha Vallecillo fire, May 2026 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,213 ha Vallecillo fire, March 2023 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 14 ha Cedros fire, April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,032 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 8,487 ha Cedros fire, 25 March 2020 38% of the municipality · 16,093 ha in total · 43 days
  5. 92 ha Esquías fire, April 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,320 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,309 ha Vallecillo fire, March 2018 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 1,302 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 20 ha Cedros fire, April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,450 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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