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HN · Honduras · Gracias a Dios · 5,829 inhabitants

Wildfires in Wampusirpi

Wampusirpi, Honduras, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 9,905 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 62 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 88 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 67 % · 36 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 86 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 28° · 76 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Wampusirpi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,905
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
6
fires
1,789
km²

How many times has Wampusirpi burned?

Wampusirpi has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Wampusirpi fire, 17 May 2024, with 1,013 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,905 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,326 hectares, 4.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
3
years with fire
9,905
cumulative ha
7,326
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 Wampusirpi

  1. 1,013 ha Wampusirpi fire, 17 May 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,509 ha Wampusirpi fire, 7 May 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,493 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 1,391 ha Wampusirpi fire, 6 May 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,823 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,155 ha Wampusirpi fire, 4 May 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,211 ha Wampusirpi fire, 2 May 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,205 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,627 ha Wampusirpi fire, April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,619 ha in total · 13 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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