Wildfires in Colón
Colón, Honduras: 28 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 10 municipalities since 2016, burning 35,337 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tocoa in 8 April 2020, with 2,304 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
- 35,337ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.3%
- 8,277 km²
- fires
- 28
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 10
- Largest fire
- 2,304ha
- Tocoa · 8 April 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 24° · 83 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 25° · 76 % · 36 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 25° · 67 % · 41 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 26° · 64 % · 35 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 26° · 64 % · 35 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 27° · 60 % · 40 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 26° · 76 % · 35 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 2,304 haTocoa8 April 2020 · 10 days
- 2,191 haIriona14 April 2020 · 13 days
- 2,175 haIriona10 April 2020 · 18 days
- 1,897 haIriona21 April 2023 · 10 days
- 1,880 haSabá2 April 2023 · 6 days of 2,003 ha in total
- 1,836 haIriona22 April 2020 · 8 days
- 1,772 haSabá9 April 2020 · 9 days
- 1,688 haSabá6 April 2020 · 9 days of 2,879 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Colón · 28
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,020 haIriona20 May 2024 · 10 days
- 1,125 haIriona6 May 2024 · 5 days
- 300 haGualaco16 May 2023 · 11 days of 1,516 ha in total
- 1,140 haIrionaMay 2023 · 5 days
- 1,053 haIriona22 April 2023 · 7 days
- 1,897 haIriona21 April 2023 · 10 days
- 0 haGualaco12 April 2023 · 5 days of 1,375 ha in total
- 1,441 haIriona12 April 2023 · 6 days
- 852 haSabá11 April 2023 · 9 days of 1,347 ha in total
- 1,880 haSabá2 April 2023 · 6 days of 2,003 ha in total
- 1,447 haTocoaMarch 2023 · 10 days of 2,045 ha in total
- 1,054 haIrionaMay 2021 · 5 days
- 1,254 haIrionaApril 2021 · 13 days
- 1,836 haIriona22 April 2020 · 8 days
- 1,031 haIriona22 April 2020 · 9 days
- 1,129 haIriona19 April 2020 · 8 days
- 2,191 haIriona14 April 2020 · 13 days
- 2,175 haIriona10 April 2020 · 18 days
- 1,772 haSabá9 April 2020 · 9 days
- 837 haGualaco9 April 2020 · 18 days of 5,844 ha in total
- 1,159 haTocoa8 April 2020 · 10 days
- 2,304 haTocoa8 April 2020 · 10 days
- 1,688 haSabá6 April 2020 · 9 days of 2,879 ha in total
- 1,160 haIrionaApril 2019 · 4 days
- 50 haSan EstebanMay 2016 · 3 days of 1,030 ha in total
- 1,149 haIriona29 April 2016 · 5 days
- 1,281 haIriona14 April 2016 · 4 days
- 1,111 haIriona12 April 2016 · 6 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).