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Wildfires in Huásabas

Huásabas, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,003 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% 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. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 29 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 49 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 27° · 52 % · 38 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 46 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 25° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 25° · 57 % · 29 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

3,003
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
2
fires
825
km²

How many times has Huásabas burned?

Huásabas has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2018. The most recent: Huásabas fire, June 2018, with 2,588 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,003
cumulative ha
19 Jun 2018
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 Huásabas

  1. 2,588 ha Huásabas fire, June 2018 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 414 ha Villa Hidalgo fire, June 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 19,286 ha in total · 23 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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