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Wildfires in Altamirano

Altamirano, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,078 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 48 % · 36 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 49 % · 35 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

6,078
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
3
fires
960
km²

How many times has Altamirano burned?

Altamirano has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Altamirano fire, April 2020, with 2,065 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,078 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,059 hectares, 5.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
6,078
cumulative ha
5,059
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 Altamirano

  1. 2,065 ha Altamirano fire, April 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,446 ha Altamirano fire, April 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,431 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,567 ha Altamirano fire, April 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,559 ha in total · 8 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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