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Wildfires in Altar

Altar, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,526 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Fri 23 Moderate 27° · 28 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 26° · 26 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 18 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 30° · 12 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 30° · 9 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 30° · 11 % · 20 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 31° · 18 % · 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

6,526
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
2
fires
4,475
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Altar

  1. 6,429 ha Altar fire, October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,429 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 97 ha Tubutama fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,502 ha in total · 5 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).