Wildfires in El Progreso
El Progreso, Guatemala: 3 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 8 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,133 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Antonio La Paz in April 2017, with 1,090 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
- 2,133ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 1,681 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 8
- Largest fire
- 1,090ha
- San Antonio La Paz · April 2017
- Inhabitants
- 56,203
- 37.9 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 23° · 60 % · 21 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 22° · 63 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 22° · 68 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 22° · 66 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 23° · 67 % · 23 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 22° · 74 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 22° · 75 % · 23 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- San Antonio La Paz 1,090 ha · 7.4 %
- San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán 1,043 ha · 6.3 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán1,043 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,090 haSan Antonio La PazApril 2017 · 7 days
- 956 haSan Cristóbal AcasaguastlánFebruary 2026 · 11 days of 1,041 ha in total
- 87 haTeculutánApril 2020 · 18 days of 6,093 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 956 | San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán 956 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 87 | Teculután 87 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,090 | San Antonio La Paz 1,090 ha |
All fires in El Progreso · 3
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
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).