Wildfires in Chimaltenango
Chimaltenango, Guatemala: 7 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 16 municipalities since 2016, burning 7,722 hectares inside the region. The largest was Yepocapa in February 2016, with 2,593 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).
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
- 7,722ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.1%
- 1,886 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 16
- Largest fire
- 2,593ha
- Yepocapa · February 2016
- Inhabitants
- 135,715
- 56.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 22° · 47 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 22° · 45 % · 34 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 22° · 33 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 23° · 37 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 23° · 60 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 24° · 48 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 24° · 56 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 24° · 51 % · 32 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Yepocapa 4,384 ha · 21 %
- San Martín Jilotepeque 1,538 ha · 3.7 %
- Acatenango 683 ha · 5.2 %
- Patzún 414 ha · 2.2 %
- Chimaltenango 346 ha · 7.0 %
- El Tejar 43,900 inhabitants 224 ha · 4.9 %
- San José Poaquíl 125 ha · 1.3 %
- Pochuta 7 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×San Martín Jilotepeque1,538 ha
- 2×Yepocapa4,384 ha
- 2×Acatenango683 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,593 haYepocapaFebruary 2016 · 3 days
- 1,815 haYepocapaFebruary 2017 · 12 days of 4,376 ha in total
- 1,423 haSan Martín JilotepequeApril 2024 · 4 days of 1,540 ha in total
- 1,080 haAcatenangoMarch 2017 · 9 days
- 683 haSan Juan SacatepéquezMarch 2022 · 4 days of 1,063 ha in total
- 125 haJoyabajMay 2024 · 5 days of 1,014 ha in total
- 2 haSan Juan SacatepéquezMarch 2025 · 8 days of 1,100 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | San Juan Sacatepéquez 2 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 1,549 | San Martín Jilotepeque 1,423 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 683 | San Juan Sacatepéquez 683 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 2,895 | Yepocapa 1,815 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 2,593 | Yepocapa 2,593 ha |
All fires in Chimaltenango · 7
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2 haSan Juan SacatepéquezMarch 2025 · 8 days of 1,100 ha in total
- 125 haJoyabajMay 2024 · 5 days of 1,014 ha in total
- 1,423 haSan Martín JilotepequeApril 2024 · 4 days of 1,540 ha in total
- 683 haSan Juan SacatepéquezMarch 2022 · 4 days of 1,063 ha in total
- 1,080 haAcatenangoMarch 2017 · 9 days
- 1,815 haYepocapaFebruary 2017 · 12 days of 4,376 ha in total
- 2,593 haYepocapaFebruary 2016 · 3 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).
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