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Wildfires in Amatlán de Cañas

Amatlán de Cañas, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 27,116 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 52% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 13 Low 26° · 43 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 27° · 26 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 27° · 28 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 29° · 23 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 30° · 26 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Low 27° · 45 % · 31 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 Amatlán de Cañas: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

27,116
hectares burned
52 %
of its area
9
fires
521
km²

How many times has Amatlán de Cañas burned?

Amatlán de Cañas has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Ixtlán del Río fire, June 2024, with 210 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,116 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,510 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
6
years with fire
27,116
cumulative ha
16,510
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 Amatlán de Cañas

  1. 210 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, June 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 8,787 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, May 2023 17% of the municipality · 9,049 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 2,289 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, 5 March 2023 4.4% of the municipality · 2,662 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 927 ha Amatlán de Cañas fire, May 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,508 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 8,087 ha Amatlán de Cañas fire, May 2021 where it started 16% of the municipality · 12,445 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,029 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, May 2021 3.9% of the municipality · 6,521 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 335 ha Ahuacatlán fire, May 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 3,515 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 1,998 ha Amatlán de Cañas fire, June 2017 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,455 ha Hostotipaquillo fire, March 2017 4.7% of the municipality · 25,730 ha in total · 27 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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