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Wildfires in Apaxtla

Apaxtla, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 21,691 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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 Low 31° · 30 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 28° · 43 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 46 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 30° · 50 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 31° · 46 % · 30 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

21,691
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
8
fires
630
km²

How many times has Apaxtla burned?

Apaxtla has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Apaxtla fire, April 2024, with 4,228 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,691 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,142 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
4
years with fire
21,691
cumulative ha
15,142
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 Apaxtla

  1. 4,228 ha Apaxtla fire, April 2024 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 4,205 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 1,890 ha Apaxtla fire, March 2024 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,897 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 116 ha San Miguel Totolapan fire, 20 March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 8,031 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 9,817 ha Apaxtla fire, April 2021 where it started 16% of the municipality · 11,305 ha in total · 31 days
  5. 1,113 ha Apaxtla fire, 22 May 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,318 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,787 ha Apaxtla fire, 13 May 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,778 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,022 ha Teloloapan fire, May 2019 1.6% of the municipality · 1,678 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,719 ha Apaxtla fire, April 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,755 ha in total · 6 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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