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Wildfires in Copanatoyac

Copanatoyac, Mexico, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 5,390 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 42 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 25° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 25° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 27° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 26° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 26° · 30 % · 31 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 27° · 40 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 50 % · 31 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

5,390
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
4
fires
308
km²

How many times has Copanatoyac burned?

Copanatoyac has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Copanatoyac fire, April 2021, with 1,324 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,390 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,716 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
5,390
cumulative ha
4,716
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 Copanatoyac

  1. 1,324 ha Copanatoyac fire, April 2021 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,728 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 1,771 ha Copanatoyac fire, April 2017 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,233 ha Copanatoyac fire, March 2017 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 3,086 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 62 ha Atlixtac fire, March 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,326 ha in total · 14 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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