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Wildfires in Chilchota

Chilchota, Mexico, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,288 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% 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. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 83 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 60 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 53 % · 47 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 51 % · 29 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

10,288
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
7
fires
306
km²

How many times has Chilchota burned?

Chilchota has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Chilchota fire, 28 April 2024, with 1,695 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,288 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,834 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
10,288
cumulative ha
8,834
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 Chilchota

  1. 1,695 ha Chilchota fire, 28 April 2024 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 1,686 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,669 ha Chilchota fire, 19 April 2024 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 1,660 ha in total · 26 days
  3. 2,171 ha Chilchota fire, March 2024 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,248 ha Chilchota fire, April 2021 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 3,949 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 482 ha Chilchota fire, 10 May 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,346 ha Chilchota fire, 24 April 2019 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 2,622 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 677 ha Cherán fire, March 2016 2.2% 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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