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Wildfires in Zacapa

Zacapa, Guatemala: 13 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 11 municipalities since 2016, burning 24,642 hectares inside the region. The largest was Teculután in April 2020, with 6,042 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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
24,642ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.1%
2,702 km²
fires
13
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 11
Largest fire
6,042ha
Teculután · April 2020
Inhabitants
118,517
207.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 6 High 33° · 36 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 7 High 32° · 44 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Moderate 32° · 46 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 9 High 32° · 42 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Moderate 32° · 46 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 11 High 32° · 46 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Low 34° · 38 % · 39 km/h

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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. Río Hondo 12,150 ha · 26 %
  2. Teculután 9,368 ha · 44 %
  3. Usumatlán 14,428 inhabitants 2,388 ha · 22 %
  4. Gualán 45,000 inhabitants 736 ha · 0.9 %

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
202622,194 Teculután 2,104 ha
202511,040 Gualán 1,040 ha
202436,125 Río Hondo 2,142 ha
202322,225 Río Hondo 1,131 ha
202211,480 Río Hondo 1,480 ha
202027,692 Teculután 6,042 ha
201923,887 Río Hondo 2,031 ha

All fires in Zacapa · 13

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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