Wildfires in Rivas
Rivas, Nicaragua: 12 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 10 municipalities since 2016, burning 14,150 hectares inside the region. The largest was Rivas (Municipio) in April 2026, with 2,095 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
- 14,150ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.9%
- 4,810 km²
- fires
- 12
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 7
- of 10
- Largest fire
- 2,095ha
- Rivas (Municipio) · April 2026
- Inhabitants
- 133,496
- 106.0 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 28° · 70 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 28° · 81 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 27° · 80 % · 24 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 28° · 77 % · 21 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 27° · 82 % · 19 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 28° · 81 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 29° · 73 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 29° · 78 % · 40 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Tola (Municipio) 4,671 ha · 9.8 %
- Cárdenas 6,990 inhabitants 2,754 ha · 2.1 %
- Belén (Municipio) 16,428 inhabitants 2,180 ha · 8.7 %
- Rivas (Municipio) 53,208 inhabitants 1,942 ha · 5.5 %
- San Juan del Sur (Municipio) 1,539 ha · 3.7 %
- Buenos Aires (Municipio) 5,420 inhabitants 861 ha · 2.1 %
- Potosí (Municipio) 11,904 inhabitants 202 ha · 1.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Tola (Municipio)4,671 ha
- 4×Cárdenas2,754 ha
- 2×Belén (Municipio)2,180 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,095 haRivas (Municipio)April 2026 · 20 days
- 1,539 haSan Juan del Sur (Municipio)March 2019 · 18 days
- 1,296 haBelén (Municipio)April 2019 · 15 days
- 1,273 haCárdenasApril 2026 · 20 days
- 1,172 haTola (Municipio)April 2026 · 21 days
- 1,133 haTola (Municipio)March 2017 · 4 days
- 1,110 haTola (Municipio)March 2019 · 18 days
- 1,091 haBelén (Municipio)April 2022 · 4 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 | 3 | 4,540 | Rivas (Municipio) 2,095 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,049 | Tola (Municipio) 1,049 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 1,091 | Belén (Municipio) 1,091 ha |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,469 | San Juan del Sur (Municipio) 1,539 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,133 | Tola (Municipio) 1,133 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 1,866 | Buenos Aires (Municipio) 1,063 ha |
All fires in Rivas · 12
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,172 haTola (Municipio)April 2026 · 21 days
- 2,095 haRivas (Municipio)April 2026 · 20 days
- 1,273 haCárdenasApril 2026 · 20 days
- 1,049 haTola (Municipio)April 2023 · 10 days
- 1,091 haBelén (Municipio)April 2022 · 4 days
- 1,296 haBelén (Municipio)April 2019 · 15 days
- 525 haSan Carlos (Municipio)April 2019 · 11 days of 1,501 ha in total
- 1,539 haSan Juan del Sur (Municipio)March 2019 · 18 days
- 1,110 haTola (Municipio)March 2019 · 18 days
- 1,133 haTola (Municipio)March 2017 · 4 days
- 804 haCárdenasApril 2016 · 5 days of 1,489 ha in total
- 1,063 haBuenos Aires (Municipio)March 2016 · 8 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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