Wildfires in Santa Bárbara
Santa Bárbara, Honduras: 9 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 28 municipalities since 2016, burning 10,254 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Francisco de Ojuera in May 2026, with 1,698 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
- 10,254ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.0%
- 5,139 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 11
- of 28
- Largest fire
- 1,698ha
- San Francisco de Ojuera · May 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 6 Low 30° · 48 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 27° · 69 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 28° · 63 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 29° · 53 % · 19 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 29° · 59 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 29° · 60 % · 29 km/h
- Thu 12 Very low 30° · 55 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 13 Very low 30° · 65 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- San Francisco de Ojuera 2,347 ha · 13 %
- Azacualpa 1,900 ha · 9.5 %
- Quimistán 1,330 ha · 1.8 %
- San José de Colinas 1,021 ha · 4.2 %
- San Pedro Zacapa 892 ha · 4.4 %
- San Nicolas 583 ha · 5.7 %
- Macuelizo 570 ha · 1.4 %
- Nuevo Celilac 557 ha · 3.6 %
- Ilama 527 ha · 3.0 %
- Chinda 513 ha · 7.8 %
- Santa Rita 14 ha · 0.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×San Francisco de Ojuera2,347 ha
- 2×Azacualpa1,900 ha
- 2×Quimistán1,330 ha
- 2×San Pedro Zacapa892 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,698 haSan Francisco de OjueraMay 2026 · 17 days
- 1,442 haSan Pedro ZacapaApril 2020 · 21 days
- 1,391 haAzacualpaMay 2022 · 9 days
- 1,311 haQuimistánMay 2024 · 8 days
- 1,140 haSan NicolasMay 2026 · 9 days
- 1,099 haMacuelizoMay 2016 · 7 days
- 1,040 haChindaApril 2020 · 8 days
- 1,021 haSan José de ColinasMay 2022 · 9 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 | 2 | 2,838 | San Francisco de Ojuera 1,698 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,311 | Quimistán 1,311 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 2,412 | Azacualpa 1,391 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 2,594 | San Pedro Zacapa 1,442 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,099 | Macuelizo 1,099 ha |
All fires in Santa Bárbara · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,140 haSan NicolasMay 2026 · 9 days
- 1,698 haSan Francisco de OjueraMay 2026 · 17 days
- 1,311 haQuimistánMay 2024 · 8 days
- 1,391 haAzacualpaMay 2022 · 9 days
- 1,021 haSan José de ColinasMay 2022 · 9 days
- 1,442 haSan Pedro ZacapaApril 2020 · 21 days
- 1,040 haChindaApril 2020 · 8 days
- 113 haJesús de OtoroApril 2020 · 23 days
- 1,099 haMacuelizoMay 2016 · 7 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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