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Wildfires in Manicaragua

Manicaragua, Cuba, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,784 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% 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. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 61 % · 36 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 69 % · 19 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 57 % · 27 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

1,784
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
2
fires
979
km²

How many times has Manicaragua burned?

Manicaragua has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Manicaragua fire, February 2023, with 1,610 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,784
cumulative ha
21 Feb 2023
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Cuba →

Fires that entered Manicaragua

  1. 1,610 ha Manicaragua fire, February 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,602 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 174 ha Cumanayagua fire, 12 April 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,401 ha in total · 9 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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