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Wildfires in Guanaceví

Guanaceví, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 19,616 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 25 Very low 20° · 38 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 86 % · 52 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 39 % · 44 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 33 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 21 % · 39 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

19,616
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
8
fires
5,506
km²

How many times has Guanaceví burned?

Guanaceví has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: San Bernardo fire, May 2022, with 6,821 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
3
years with fire
19,616
cumulative ha
11 May 2022
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 Guanaceví

  1. 6,821 ha San Bernardo fire, May 2022 1.2% of the municipality · 19,782 ha in total · 24 days
  2. 1,079 ha Guanaceví fire, 12 June 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,277 ha Guanaceví fire, 8 June 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,516 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 4,131 ha Guanaceví fire, 7 June 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,120 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 2,609 ha Guanaceví fire, May 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,594 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 536 ha San Bernardo fire, April 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,907 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 1,008 ha Ocampo fire, 18 May 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,748 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,155 ha Guanaceví fire, May 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,149 ha in total · 9 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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