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Wildfires in Lempira
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 2,390 km² of Lempira at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 412 km², ranking 11th of 18 regions of Honduras.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2015, with 678 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 216 km². The 2021–2025 average is 44% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
March, April and May together hold 88% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 23 April 2015, with detections in 49 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,390 km² with at least one detection, 36% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,010 | 42% |
| 2 years | 517 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 690 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 168 | 7.0% |
| 11 years or more | 4.8 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 14.25, -88.75 and holds 58% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 351 | 346 |
| 2013 | 641 | 665 |
| 2014 | 548 | 588 |
| 2015 | 678 | 746 |
| 2016 | 401 | 397 |
| 2017 | 359 | 383 |
| 2018 | 425 | 418 |
| 2019 | 408 | 415 |
| 2020 | 493 | 525 |
| 2021 | 216 | 216 |
| 2022 | 277 | 277 |
| 2023 | 392 | 411 |
| 2024 | 355 | 354 |
| 2025 | 224 | 213 |
Other regions of Honduras
- Olancho7,060 km² in an average year
- Gracias a Dios3,600 km² in an average year
- Yoro2,380 km² in an average year
- Francisco Morazán2,260 km² in an average year
- El Paraíso1,740 km² in an average year
- Colón1,630 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Intibucá53 km
- Ocotepeque53 km
- Santa Ana, El Salvador53 km
- Chalatenango, El Salvador53 km
- Copán55 km
- San Vicente, El Salvador55 km