Wildfires in Lempira
Lempira, Honduras: 5 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 28 municipalities since 2016, burning 5,638 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cololaca in March 2026, with 1,844 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
- 5,638ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 4,300 km²
- fires
- 5
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 28
- Largest fire
- 1,844ha
- Cololaca · March 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Very low 19° · 66 % · 39 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 19° · 78 % · 28 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 20° · 74 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 21° · 56 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 21° · 57 % · 37 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 20° · 75 % · 29 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 23° · 55 % · 20 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Cololaca 2,911 ha · 13 %
- Belén 1,086 ha · 5.4 %
- Valladolid 550 ha · 7.0 %
- San Juan Guarita 543 ha · 13 %
- La Iguala 272 ha · 0.8 %
- Guarita 147 ha · 0.8 %
- Gracias 130 ha · 0.3 %
- Lepaera 0 ha · 0.0 %
Largest recorded fires
- 1,844 haCololacaMarch 2026 · 6 days
- 1,487 haBelénApril 2023 · 9 days
- 1,231 haValladolidApril 2017 · 9 days
- 1,075 haCololacaMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 0 haSanta Rosa de CopánMarch 2019 · 10 days of 1,196 ha in total
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 | 1,844 | Cololaca 1,844 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,487 | Belén 1,487 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 1,075 | Cololaca 1,075 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | Santa Rosa de Copán 0 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,231 | Valladolid 1,231 ha |
All fires in Lempira · 5
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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