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Wildfires in Batopilas

Batopilas, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 9,863 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Sat 24 Low 27° · 44 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 27° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 28° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 29° · 23 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 36 % · 43 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 45 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 51 % · 28 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

9,863
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
8
fires
2,147
km²

How many times has Batopilas burned?

Batopilas has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Batopilas fire, May 2023, with 725 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
5
years with fire
9,863
cumulative ha
27 May 2023
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 Batopilas

  1. 725 ha Batopilas fire, May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,674 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 0 ha Morelos fire, May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,496 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 374 ha Urique fire, 28 May 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 4,728 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 3,283 ha Batopilas fire, June 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,397 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 155 ha Urique fire, 31 May 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,567 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,414 ha Morelos fire, 25 May 2018 0.7% of the municipality · 2,769 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 2,633 ha Urique fire, 24 May 2018 1.2% of the municipality · 6,540 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,278 ha Batopilas fire, May 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 11 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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