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Wildfires in Escuintla

Escuintla, Guatemala: 18 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 14 municipalities since 2016, burning 26,760 hectares inside the region. The largest was Escuintla in 8 February 2016, with 2,336 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: 26,760ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 5.6%; 4,809 km²
fires: 18; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 12; of 14
Largest fire: 2,336ha; Escuintla · 8 February 2016
Inhabitants: 235,296; 113.7 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 32° · 57 % · 21 km/h
Sat 24 Very low 31° · 62 % · 19 km/h
Sun 25 Very low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 31° · 55 % · 20 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 30° · 58 % · 21 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 31° · 54 % · 20 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 31° · 59 % · 22 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 31° · 60 % · 20 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Escuintla 16,187 inhabitants 14,044 ha · 26 %
Sipacate 3,552 ha · 13 %
Guanagazapa 2,722 ha · 12 %
San Vicente Pacaya 1,518 ha · 10 %
La Democracia 22,884 inhabitants 1,332 ha · 4.6 %
Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa 1,096 ha · 2.4 %
Siquinalá 20,843 inhabitants 1,007 ha · 5.4 %
La Gomera 58,272 inhabitants 958 ha · 1.8 %
Palín 62,127 inhabitants 254 ha · 2.3 %
Masagua 194 ha · 0.4 %
San José 44 ha · 0.2 %
Nueva Concepción 39 ha · 0.1 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

12×Escuintla14,044 ha
7×San Vicente Pacaya1,518 ha
4×Palín254 ha
3×Sipacate3,552 ha
2×Guanagazapa2,722 ha
2×Siquinalá1,007 ha
2×La Gomera958 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	6	9,586	Escuintla 2,291 ha
2025	1	1,246	Sipacate 1,246 ha
2024	1	1,376	La Democracia 1,376 ha
2023	1	1,013	Escuintla 1,013 ha
2022	1	1,636	Guanagazapa 1,636 ha
2021	2	2,126	Sipacate 1,105 ha
2019	1	1,310	Escuintla 1,310 ha
2018	1	1,877	Escuintla 1,877 ha
2017	2	2,868	Yepocapa 1,505 ha
2016	2	3,721	Escuintla 2,336 ha

All fires in Escuintla · 18

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).

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