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Wildfires in Bacadéhuachi

Bacadéhuachi, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 672 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 57 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 35 % · 29 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 23° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 22° · 55 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 23° · 47 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 23° · 39 % · 29 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

672
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
2
fires
1,071
km²

How many times has Bacadéhuachi burned?

Bacadéhuachi has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: Huachinera fire, June 2017, with 138 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
672
cumulative ha
8 Jun 2017
most recent

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 Bacadéhuachi

  1. 138 ha Huachinera fire, June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 12,445 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 533 ha Nácori Chico fire, May 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 2,818 ha in total · 10 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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