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Wildfires in León

León, Nicaragua: 21 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 10 municipalities since 2016, burning 28,641 hectares inside the region. The largest was La Paz Centro (Municipio) in January 2016, with 2,866 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
28,641ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.2%
5,528 km²
fires
21
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 10
Largest fire
2,866ha
La Paz Centro (Municipio) · January 2016
Inhabitants
181,054
158.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 61 % · 31 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. La Paz Centro (Municipio) 33,228 inhabitants 11,795 ha · 12 %
  2. Municipio Larreynaga 27,898 inhabitants 8,766 ha · 12 %
  3. Municipio León 4,325 ha · 5.3 %
  4. Municipio Telica 23,266 inhabitants 2,306 ha · 5.8 %
  5. Municipio El Sauce 30,707 inhabitants 503 ha · 0.7 %
  6. Nagarote (Municipio) 32,303 inhabitants 365 ha · 0.5 %
  7. Municipio Achuapa 13,797 inhabitants 297 ha · 0.8 %
  8. Quezalguaque (Municipio) 284 ha · 3.3 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202634,038 La Paz Centro (Municipio) 1,492 ha
202421,932 Municipio Larreynaga 1,635 ha
2022710,036 Municipio Larreynaga 2,456 ha
202111,064 Municipio León 1,064 ha
202021,908 Municipio Larreynaga 1,405 ha
201911,006 Municipio Larreynaga 1,006 ha
201733,722 La Paz Centro (Municipio) 1,371 ha
201624,936 La Paz Centro (Municipio) 2,866 ha

All fires in León · 21

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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