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Wildfires in Petén

Petén, Guatemala: 150 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 14 municipalities since 2016, burning 253,792 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Andrés in 3 April 2020, with 7,245 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
253,792ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.0%
36,060 km²
fires
150
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 14
Largest fire
7,245ha
San Andrés · 3 April 2020
Inhabitants
404,169
627.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 54 % · 17 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 62 % · 21 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

  1. San Andrés 20,295 inhabitants 134,855 ha · 17 %
  2. La Libertad 64,874 ha · 13 %
  3. Las Cruces 9,589 ha · 5.4 %
  4. Dolores 39,783 inhabitants 9,469 ha · 5.7 %
  5. San Luis 48,745 inhabitants 8,725 ha · 2.8 %
  6. San Francisco 47,919 inhabitants 7,173 ha · 4.5 %
  7. Poptún 42,996 inhabitants 6,479 ha · 5.9 %
  8. Melchor de Mencos 5,002 ha · 2.4 %
  9. San José 4,149 ha · 2.0 %
  10. Sayaxché 59,499 inhabitants 2,149 ha · 0.8 %
  11. Flores 144,932 inhabitants 1,129 ha · 0.3 %
  12. El Chal 199 ha · 0.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
2026810,668 San Andrés 2,023 ha
202557,565 San Andrés 2,206 ha
20243358,020 San Andrés 3,374 ha
20231528,422 La Libertad 6,599 ha
2022610,857 San Andrés 2,812 ha
202178,215 San Andrés 1,543 ha
20202966,529 San Andrés 7,245 ha
20191114,098 San Luis 1,896 ha
201811,054 La Libertad 1,054 ha
20171725,774 La Libertad 2,773 ha
20161822,591 San Andrés 1,770 ha

All fires in Petén · 150

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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