Wildfires in Cortés
Cortés, Honduras: 7 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 12 municipalities since 2016, burning 8,642 hectares inside the region. The largest was Santa Cruz de Yojoa in May 2024, with 1,973 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
- 8,642ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.2%
- 3,959 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 12
- Largest fire
- 1,973ha
- Santa Cruz de Yojoa · May 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 28° · 69 % · 34 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 27° · 64 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 28° · 60 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 30° · 50 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 27° · 74 % · 29 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 29° · 61 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 30° · 56 % · 31 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Santa Cruz de Yojoa 5,454 ha · 7.4 %
- Villanueva 3,108 ha · 8.8 %
- San Pedro Sula 79 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Santa Cruz de Yojoa5,454 ha
- 3×Villanueva3,108 ha
- 2×San Pedro Sula79 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,973 haSanta Cruz de YojoaMay 2024 · 16 days
- 1,224 haSanta Cruz de YojoaApril 2019 · 9 days
- 1,213 haSanta Cruz de YojoaApril 2022 · 10 days
- 1,138 haVillanuevaMay 2026 · 12 days
- 1,045 haSanta Cruz de YojoaMarch 2022 · 10 days
- 1,030 haVillanuevaApril 2017 · 9 days
- 1,019 haVillanuevaApril 2020 · 12 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 | 1 | 1,138 | Villanueva 1,138 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,973 | Santa Cruz de Yojoa 1,973 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 2,258 | Santa Cruz de Yojoa 1,213 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,019 | Villanueva 1,019 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,224 | Santa Cruz de Yojoa 1,224 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,030 | Villanueva 1,030 ha |
All fires in Cortés · 7
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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