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Wildfires in Igualapa

Igualapa, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 13,073 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 67% 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. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 73 % · 30 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

13,073
hectares burned
67 %
of its area
9
fires
196
km²

How many times has Igualapa burned?

Igualapa has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Igualapa fire, May 2024, with 1,576 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,073 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,746 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
4
years with fire
13,073
cumulative ha
5,746
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 Igualapa

  1. 1,576 ha Igualapa fire, May 2024 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 5,371 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 2,239 ha Azoyú fire, April 2024 11% of the municipality · 8,513 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 3,095 ha Igualapa fire, April 2021 where it started 16% of the municipality · 4,606 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 84 ha Azoyú fire, April 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 3,670 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 375 ha Tlacoachistlahuaca fire, 6 May 2019 1.9% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 282 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, 6 May 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 1,588 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,019 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, 5 May 2019 5.2% of the municipality · 3,137 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 3,947 ha Igualapa fire, April 2017 where it started 20% of the municipality · 4,976 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 457 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, 6 March 2017 2.3% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 6 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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