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Wildfires in Yoro

Yoro, Honduras, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 25,487 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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 25 Very low 28° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 30° · 39 % · 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

25,487
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
18
fires
2,278
km²

How many times has Yoro burned?

Yoro has burned 18 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Yoro fire, 14 May 2026, with 1,736 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 25,487 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,983 hectares, 9.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 6× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
18
fires
5
years with fire
25,487
cumulative ha
21,983
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 Yoro

  1. 1,736 ha Yoro fire, 14 May 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,726 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 1,096 ha Yoro fire, 8 May 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,090 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,476 ha Yoro fire, 8 May 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,604 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,545 ha Yoro fire, 5 May 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,536 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 1,070 ha Yoro fire, 19 April 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 31 ha Mangulile fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 12 ha Jocón fire, 2 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 1,036 ha Yoro fire, 1 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 4,678 ha Yoro fire, March 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,649 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 1,325 ha Yoro fire, 26 March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,318 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 1,063 ha Yoro fire, 13 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 3,429 ha Yoro fire, 11 April 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,411 ha in total · 20 days
  13. 1,048 ha Yoro fire, 6 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 887 ha Mangulile fire, 2 April 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,910 ha in total · 24 days
  15. 1,170 ha Yoro fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 1,039 ha Yoro fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 2,474 ha Yoro fire, 3 March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,461 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 372 ha Jocón fire, April 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 22 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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