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Wildfires in Chicomuselo

Chicomuselo, Mexico, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,930 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 28° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 55 % · 25 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

15,930
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
13
fires
1,003
km²

How many times has Chicomuselo burned?

Chicomuselo has burned 13 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Chicomuselo fire, May 2024, with 5,626 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,930 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,722 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
13
fires
7
years with fire
15,930
cumulative ha
11,722
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 Chicomuselo

  1. 5,626 ha Chicomuselo fire, May 2024 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 9,691 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 336 ha La Concordia fire, 25 May 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,762 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 483 ha La Concordia fire, 9 May 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 2,249 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 71 ha La Concordia fire, 24 April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 7,494 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,635 ha Chicomuselo fire, April 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,893 ha Chicomuselo fire, 19 May 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,549 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,209 ha Chicomuselo fire, 3 May 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 398 ha La Concordia fire, May 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 1 ha La Concordia fire, April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 5,850 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 1,249 ha Chicomuselo fire, May 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,127 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 73 ha Ángel Albino Corzo fire, April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,326 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 1,116 ha Chicomuselo fire, April 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,691 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 838 ha La Concordia fire, 16 April 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 1,704 ha in total · 7 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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