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Wildfires in Cuerámaro

Cuerámaro, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 3,222 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 44 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 26° · 34 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 26° · 32 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 27° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 28° · 25 % · 39 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 27° · 27 % · 35 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

3,222
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
2
fires
262
km²

How many times has Cuerámaro burned?

Cuerámaro has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Pénjamo fire, May 2019, with 274 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
3,222
cumulative ha
6 May 2019
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 Cuerámaro

  1. 274 ha Pénjamo fire, May 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,948 ha Cuerámaro fire, April 2019 where it started 11% of the municipality · 3,125 ha in total · 5 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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