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Wildfires in Degollado

Degollado, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,472 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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° · 41 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 27° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 30° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 29° · 26 % · 40 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 28° · 19 % · 32 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

3,472
hectares burned
8.1 %
of its area
2
fires
429
km²

How many times has Degollado burned?

Degollado has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Degollado fire, May 2024, with 1,791 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,472 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,054 hectares, 4.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
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  9. 1× 24
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  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,472
cumulative ha
2,054
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 Degollado

  1. 1,791 ha Degollado fire, May 2024 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 1,805 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,681 ha Degollado fire, March 2017 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 1,712 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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