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Wildfires in Chanal

Chanal, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 22,631 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 55% 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. Fri 23 Very low 17° · 62 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 51 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 31 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 48 % · 47 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 47 % · 43 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

22,631
hectares burned
55 %
of its area
9
fires
408
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chanal

  1. 2,472 ha Chanal fire, May 2024 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 2,774 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 447 ha Oxchuc fire, March 2024 1.1% of the municipality · 1,823 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 9,158 ha Chanal fire, March 2024 where it started 22% of the municipality · 9,107 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,521 ha Chanal fire, March 2022 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,515 ha Chanal fire, March 2021 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 2,500 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,558 ha Chanal fire, 20 April 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,167 ha Chanal fire, 14 April 2019 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,642 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,517 ha Chanal fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,277 ha Chanal fire, March 2016 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 5 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).