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Wildfires in Cherán

Cherán, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,978 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 21° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 55 % · 47 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 52 % · 26 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

1,978
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
3
fires
223
km²

How many times has Cherán burned?

Cherán has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Cherán fire, April 2021, with 1,160 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
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  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
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  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,978
cumulative ha
10 Apr 2021
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 Cherán

  1. 1,160 ha Cherán fire, April 2021 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 2,461 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 289 ha Chilchota fire, 24 April 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 2,622 ha in total · 29 days
  3. 529 ha Cherán fire, March 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,529 ha in total · 10 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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