Wildfires in Copán
Copán, Honduras: 4 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 23 municipalities since 2016, burning 4,689 hectares inside the region. The largest was Santa Rosa de Copán in April 2023, with 1,251 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
- 4,689ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.4%
- 3,272 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 23
- Largest fire
- 1,251ha
- Santa Rosa de Copán · April 2023
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 22° · 81 % · 39 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 24° · 65 % · 32 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 24° · 64 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 23° · 60 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 24° · 61 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 24° · 69 % · 33 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 24° · 73 % · 37 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Santa Rosa de Copán 4,371 ha · 14 %
- San José 276 ha · 5.3 %
- San Juan de Opoa 42 ha · 0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Santa Rosa de Copán4,371 ha
- 3×San José276 ha
- 2×San Juan de Opoa42 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,251 haSanta Rosa de CopánApril 2023 · 7 days
- 1,203 haSanta Rosa de CopánMarch 2019 · 5 days
- 1,203 haSanta Rosa de CopánApril 2016 · 4 days
- 1,032 haSanta Rosa de CopánMarch 2022 · 8 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 1,251 | Santa Rosa de Copán 1,251 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 1,032 | Santa Rosa de Copán 1,032 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,203 | Santa Rosa de Copán 1,203 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,203 | Santa Rosa de Copán 1,203 ha |
All fires in Copán · 4
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).