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Wildfires in Ahuacuotzingo

Ahuacuotzingo, Mexico, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 14,244 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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. Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 31° · 28 % · 24 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 32° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 31° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 30° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 31° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 60 % · 34 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

14,244
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
6
fires
876
km²

How many times has Ahuacuotzingo burned?

Ahuacuotzingo has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Atlixtac fire, March 2024, with 1,492 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,244 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,528 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
14,244
cumulative ha
12,528
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 Ahuacuotzingo

  1. 1,492 ha Atlixtac fire, March 2024 1.7% of the municipality · 2,820 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 377 ha Atlixtac fire, May 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,742 ha Ahuacuotzingo fire, May 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,453 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 3,856 ha Ahuacuotzingo fire, April 2019 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 3,888 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 5,151 ha Ahuacuotzingo fire, March 2019 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 7,407 ha in total · 28 days
  6. 1,625 ha Olinalá fire, March 2018 1.9% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 7 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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