Wildfires in Madriz
Madriz, Nicaragua: 4 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 9 municipalities since 2016, burning 9,136 hectares inside the region. The largest was Somoto (Municipio) in April 2020, with 5,138 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
- 9,136ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 5.2%
- 1,757 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 5,138ha
- Somoto (Municipio) · April 2020
- Inhabitants
- 132,459
- 69.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very low 33° · 35 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 32° · 40 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 28° · 61 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 27° · 66 % · 20 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 28° · 61 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 27° · 67 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 26° · 64 % · 42 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 30° · 54 % · 39 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Somoto (Municipio) 33,788 inhabitants 8,281 ha · 18 %
- Municipio Telpaneca 19,025 inhabitants 855 ha · 2.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Somoto (Municipio)8,281 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 5,138 haSomoto (Municipio)April 2020 · 16 days of 5,689 ha in total
- 1,735 haSomoto (Municipio)12 April 2026 · 9 days
- 1,408 haSomoto (Municipio)25 April 2026 · 17 days
- 855 haMunicipio Ciudad AntiguaApril 2019 · 17 days of 2,724 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 | 2 | 3,143 | Somoto (Municipio) 1,735 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 5,138 | Somoto (Municipio) 5,138 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 855 | Municipio Ciudad Antigua 855 ha |
All fires in Madriz · 4
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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