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Wildfires in Cuatro Ciénegas

Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 8,257 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 14 Moderate 25° · 22 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Moderate 26° · 24 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 15° · 73 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Low 15° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Low 18° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Low 19° · 73 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 21° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 24° · 61 % · 20 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Cuatro Ciénegas: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,257
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
3
fires
10,718
km²

How many times has Cuatro Ciénegas burned?

Cuatro Ciénegas has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Cuatro Ciénegas fire, June 2023, with 3,179 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
8,257
cumulative ha
24 Jun 2023
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 Cuatro Ciénegas

  1. 3,179 ha Cuatro Ciénegas fire, June 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,831 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,074 ha Ocampo fire, May 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,161 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 4,004 ha Cuatro Ciénegas fire, May 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,628 ha in total · 15 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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