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Wildfires in Colón

Colón, Cuba, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 3,409 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% of its area. 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 78 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 59 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 55 % · 28 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,409
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
4
fires
617
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Colón

  1. 605 ha Colón fire, February 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,191 ha Colón fire, April 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 307 ha Colón fire, March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,312 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,306 ha Colón fire, February 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 3 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).