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Wildfires in Banámichi

Banámichi, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 7,194 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 Moderate 30° · 19 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 29 % · 20 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 57 % · 17 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 61 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 25° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 27° · 36 % · 18 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

7,194
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
2
fires
811
km²

How many times has Banámichi burned?

Banámichi has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2022. The most recent: Cumpas fire, June 2022, with 235 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
7,194
cumulative ha
9 Jun 2022
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 Banámichi

  1. 235 ha Cumpas fire, June 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 1,866 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 6,959 ha Opodepe fire, June 2019 8.6% of the municipality · 13,561 ha in total · 13 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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