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Wildfires in Candelaria

Candelaria, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 16,866 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 Very low 30° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 50 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 30° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 66 % · 22 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

16,866
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
9
fires
5,699
km²

How many times has Candelaria burned?

Candelaria has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Candelaria fire, May 2024, with 1,661 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,866 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,165 hectares, 2.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
6
years with fire
16,866
cumulative ha
15,165
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 Candelaria

  1. 1,661 ha Candelaria fire, May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,654 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,035 ha Candelaria fire, 30 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2,515 ha Candelaria fire, 27 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,502 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 3,249 ha Candelaria fire, March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,232 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 2,295 ha Candelaria fire, May 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,284 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,724 ha Candelaria fire, April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,714 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,802 ha Candelaria fire, April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,793 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 30 ha Carmen fire, May 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,807 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,554 ha Candelaria fire, May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,546 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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