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Wildfires in Comitán de Domínguez

Comitán de Domínguez, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 710 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 25° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 25° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 25° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 24° · 66 % · 30 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

710
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
3
fires
984
km²

How many times has Comitán de Domínguez burned?

Comitán de Domínguez has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2024. The most recent: Chanal fire, May 2024, with 317 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 710 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 503 hectares, 0.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
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  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
710
cumulative ha
503
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 Comitán de Domínguez

  1. 317 ha Chanal fire, May 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 2,774 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 355 ha Chanal fire, 11 April 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 38 ha Chanal fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,304 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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