Wildfires in Guantánamo
Guantánamo, Cuba: 7 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 9 municipalities since 2016, burning 12,943 hectares inside the region. The largest was Manuel Tames in April 2021, with 2,515 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 12,943ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.1%
- 6,212 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 2,515ha
- Manuel Tames · April 2021
- Inhabitants
- 45,773
- 282.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 25° · 83 % · 18 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 25° · 88 % · 33 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 22° · 98 % · 45 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 23° · 95 % · 46 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 26° · 76 % · 33 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 27° · 72 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 27° · 75 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 28° · 83 % · 21 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Manuel Tames 7,864 ha · 7.5 %
- Yateras 5,078 ha · 7.9 %
- San Antonio del Sur 2 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Manuel Tames7,864 ha
- 3×Yateras5,078 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,515 haManuel TamesApril 2021 · 4 days
- 2,499 haManuel TamesMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 2,281 haYaterasApril 2021 · 13 days of 2,511 ha in total
- 1,765 haManuel TamesFebruary 2017 · 4 days
- 1,623 haMoaAugust 2026 · 21 days of 4,621 ha in total
- 1,174 haYaterasJune 2026 · 9 days
- 1,086 haManuel TamesJuly 2025 · 5 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 2,797 | Moa 1,623 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 1,086 | Manuel Tames 1,086 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 7,295 | Manuel Tames 2,515 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,765 | Manuel Tames 1,765 ha |
All fires in Guantánamo · 7
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,623 haMoaAugust 2026 · 21 days of 4,621 ha in total
- 1,174 haYaterasJune 2026 · 9 days
- 1,086 haManuel TamesJuly 2025 · 5 days
- 2,515 haManuel TamesApril 2021 · 4 days
- 2,281 haYaterasApril 2021 · 13 days of 2,511 ha in total
- 2,499 haManuel TamesMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 1,765 haManuel TamesFebruary 2017 · 4 days
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).