Wildfires in Quiché
Quiché, Guatemala: 9 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 20 municipalities since 2016, burning 11,217 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sacapulas in March 2025, with 2,316 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
- 11,217ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.5%
- 7,463 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 20
- Largest fire
- 2,316ha
- Sacapulas · March 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Very low 22° · 50 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 22° · 66 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 20° · 75 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 79 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 22° · 63 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 23° · 55 % · 32 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 23° · 67 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 24° · 72 % · 33 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Sacapulas 8,142 ha · 22 %
- Joyabaj 1,050 ha · 2.2 %
- Nebaj 1,020 ha · 1.2 %
- Chichicastenango 1,005 ha · 4.1 %
Largest recorded fires
- 2,316 haSacapulasMarch 2025 · 3 days
- 2,071 haSacapulasApril 2016 · 9 days
- 1,348 haSacapulasFebruary 2017 · 5 days
- 1,271 haSacapulasApril 2023 · 2 days
- 1,137 haSacapulasApril 2019 · 3 days
- 1,034 haChichicastenangoMarch 2016 · 4 days
- 1,020 haNebajMay 2024 · 9 days of 2,591 ha in total
- 895 haJoyabajMay 2024 · 5 days of 1,014 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Quiché · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,316 haSacapulasMarch 2025 · 3 days
- 1,020 haNebajMay 2024 · 9 days of 2,591 ha in total
- 895 haJoyabajMay 2024 · 5 days of 1,014 ha in total
- 126 haSan Martín JilotepequeApril 2024 · 4 days of 1,540 ha in total
- 1,271 haSacapulasApril 2023 · 2 days
- 1,137 haSacapulasApril 2019 · 3 days
- 1,348 haSacapulasFebruary 2017 · 5 days
- 2,071 haSacapulasApril 2016 · 9 days
- 1,034 haChichicastenangoMarch 2016 · 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).
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