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Wildfires in Chimaltitán

Chimaltitán, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,745 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% 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. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 37 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 29° · 35 % · 31 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 34 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 23 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 25 % · 23 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

1,745
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
2
fires
658
km²

How many times has Chimaltitán burned?

Chimaltitán has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: La Yesca fire, 16 May 2017, with 749 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
1,745
cumulative ha
16 May 2017
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 Chimaltitán

  1. 749 ha La Yesca fire, 16 May 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 12,474 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 996 ha San Martín de Bolaños fire, May 2016 1.5% of the municipality · 2,085 ha in total · 9 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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