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Wildfires in Bolaños

Bolaños, Mexico, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 39,790 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 46% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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° · 33 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 27° · 29 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 45 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 53 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 59 % · 33 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

39,790
hectares burned
46 %
of its area
23
fires
871
km²

How many times has Bolaños burned?

Bolaños has burned 23 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Mezquitic fire, April 2024, with 227 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 39,790 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,091 hectares, 35 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
23
fires
8
years with fire
39,790
cumulative ha
30,091
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 Bolaños

  1. 227 ha Mezquitic fire, April 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 2,357 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,505 ha Bolaños fire, April 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,900 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 56 ha La Yesca fire, 21 April 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,382 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,281 ha Bolaños fire, June 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,178 ha Mezquitic fire, 10 May 2023 1.4% of the municipality · 4,078 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,988 ha Bolaños fire, April 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,978 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,020 ha Mezquitic fire, 24 April 2023 2.3% of the municipality · 3,017 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 38 ha La Yesca fire, 31 May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,464 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 897 ha Bolaños fire, 18 May 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,984 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,516 ha Bolaños fire, 12 May 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 2,476 ha Bolaños fire, March 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,662 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 961 ha Mezquitic fire, 21 March 2021 1.1% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,866 ha Bolaños fire, 17 May 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,858 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 835 ha Bolaños fire, 7 May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 81 ha La Yesca fire, June 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,730 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,353 ha Bolaños fire, April 2018 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,342 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,620 ha Bolaños fire, June 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,613 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 9,514 ha Bolaños fire, 17 May 2017 where it started 11% of the municipality · 15,907 ha in total · 29 days
  19. 3,305 ha La Yesca fire, 16 May 2017 3.8% of the municipality · 12,474 ha in total · 22 days
  20. 676 ha Bolaños fire, 13 May 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 2,860 ha Mezquitic fire, 1 May 2017 3.3% of the municipality · 6,437 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 1,494 ha Bolaños fire, June 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,233 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 44 ha La Yesca fire, 2 June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,500 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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