Wildfires in Choluteca
Choluteca, Honduras: 14 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 16 municipalities since 2016, burning 18,276 hectares inside the region. The largest was Morolica in March 2018, with 2,005 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
- 18,276ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.1%
- 4,455 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 9
- of 16
- Largest fire
- 2,005ha
- Morolica · March 2018
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 31° · 51 % · 18 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 31° · 47 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 30° · 62 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 30° · 48 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 59 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 29° · 76 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 29° · 74 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 29° · 73 % · 28 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- San Marcos de Colón 4,057 ha · 7.0 %
- Choluteca 3,826 ha · 3.5 %
- Morolica 2,924 ha · 11 %
- Marcovia 2,448 ha · 5.0 %
- Duyure 1,707 ha · 16 %
- Namasigüe 1,518 ha · 6.9 %
- El Corpus 1,115 ha · 4.5 %
- El Triunfo 620 ha · 2.0 %
- Apacilagua 62 ha · 0.3 %
Largest recorded fires
- 2,005 haMorolicaMarch 2018 · 9 days
- 1,716 haSan Marcos de ColónMarch 2020 · 16 days of 2,315 ha in total
- 1,534 haDuyureApril 2020 · 11 days
- 1,483 haMarcoviaMarch 2025 · 4 days
- 1,376 haCholutecaJanuary 2018 · 2 days
- 1,263 haCholutecaApril 2026 · 8 days
- 1,240 haSan Marcos de ColónApril 2020 · 14 days
- 1,154 haMorolicaApril 2026 · 11 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 3,518 | Choluteca 1,263 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 1,483 | Marcovia 1,483 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,008 | Namasigüe 1,008 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,115 | El Corpus 1,115 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 1,129 | El Triunfo 1,129 ha |
| 2020 | 5 | 6,641 | San Marcos de Colón 1,716 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 3,382 | Morolica 2,005 ha |
All fires in Choluteca · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,101 haSan Marcos de ColónMay 2026 · 7 days
- 1,263 haCholutecaApril 2026 · 8 days
- 1,154 haMorolicaApril 2026 · 11 days
- 1,483 haMarcoviaMarch 2025 · 4 days
- 1,008 haNamasigüeApril 2024 · 5 days
- 1,115 haEl CorpusApril 2023 · 7 days
- 1,129 haEl TriunfoMarch 2022 · 11 days
- 1,072 haCholutecaApril 2020 · 2 days
- 1,534 haDuyureApril 2020 · 11 days
- 1,240 haSan Marcos de ColónApril 2020 · 14 days
- 1,716 haSan Marcos de ColónMarch 2020 · 16 days of 2,315 ha in total
- 1,079 haMarcoviaFebruary 2020 · 10 days
- 2,005 haMorolicaMarch 2018 · 9 days
- 1,376 haCholutecaJanuary 2018 · 2 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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