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Wildfires in Cohetzala

Cohetzala, Mexico, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,549 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 Low 27° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 29° · 35 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 29° · 34 % · 16 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 31 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 33 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 31° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 44 % · 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

10,549
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
4
fires
242
km²

How many times has Cohetzala burned?

Cohetzala has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Atenango del Río fire, 9 March 2024, with 3,081 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,549 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,406 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
10,549
cumulative ha
4,406
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 Cohetzala

  1. 3,081 ha Atenango del Río fire, 9 March 2024 13% of the municipality · 11,437 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 2,399 ha Cohetzala fire, March 2021 where it started 9.9% of the municipality · 7,699 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 2,739 ha Atenango del Río fire, 9 March 2019 11% of the municipality · 7,726 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 2,330 ha Ixcamilpa de Guerrero fire, April 2016 9.6% of the municipality · 3,998 ha in total · 11 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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