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PA · Panama · Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé · 2,014 inhabitants

Wildfires in Besikó

Besikó, Panama, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 3,217 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% 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 25° · 91 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 82 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 77 % · 27 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

3,217
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
2
fires
758
km²

How many times has Besikó burned?

Besikó has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Besikó fire, 16 April 2026, with 1,844 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
3,217
cumulative ha
16 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Panama →

Fires that entered Besikó

  1. 1,844 ha Besikó fire, 16 April 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,832 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,373 ha Besikó fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,364 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/Milton Solano, of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, on ArcGIS online, GIS Laboratory. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, 2012 (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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