Wildfires in Estelí
Estelí, Nicaragua: 2 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 6 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,113 hectares inside the region. The largest was Municipio Estelí in April 2020, with 1,246 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
- 2,113ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.9%
- 2,289 km²
- fires
- 2
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 1,246ha
- Municipio Estelí · April 2020
- Inhabitants
- 229,866
- 9.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 14 Very low 28° · 59 % · 21 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 28° · 54 % · 37 km/h
- Mon 16 Low 29° · 50 % · 53 km/h
- Tue 17 Low 28° · 57 % · 61 km/h
- Wed 18 Moderate 28° · 47 % · 63 km/h
- Thu 19 Moderate 28° · 50 % · 55 km/h
- Fri 20 Moderate 28° · 46 % · 56 km/h
- Sat 21 Moderate 29° · 48 % · 51 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Municipio Estelí 129,574 inhabitants 2,096 ha · 2.6 %
- Municipio San Juan de Limay 15,072 inhabitants 18 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Municipio Estelí2,096 ha
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 868 | Municipio Estelí 868 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,246 | Municipio Estelí 1,246 ha |
All fires in Estelí · 2
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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