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Wildfires in Ahuacatlán

Ahuacatlán, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 4,719 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

Only fires of 1,500 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. Sat 14 Moderate 26° · 28 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 44 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Moderate 29° · 27 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 29° · 28 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Moderate 26° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 29° · 34 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Moderate 29° · 38 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Moderate 28° · 42 % · 38 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ahuacatlán: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,719
hectares burned
9.3 %
of its area
2
fires
507
km²

How many times has Ahuacatlán burned?

Ahuacatlán has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2021. The most recent: Ixtlán del Río fire, May 2021, with 1,522 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,719 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,216 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,719
cumulative ha
4,216
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,500 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 Mexico

Fires that entered Ahuacatlán

  1. 1,522 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, May 2021 3.0% of the municipality · 6,521 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 3,197 ha Ahuacatlán fire, May 2018 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 3,515 ha in total · 16 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/World Bank (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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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