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Wildfires in La Colorada

La Colorada, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,901 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% 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 1 Low 28° · 56 % · 53 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 28° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 26° · 34 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 26° · 46 % · 38 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 30° · 25 % · 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

4,901
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
2
fires
4,138
km²

How many times has La Colorada burned?

La Colorada has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: La Colorada fire, April 2019, with 3,228 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,901 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,527 hectares, 1.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
4,901
cumulative ha
4,527
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 La Colorada

  1. 3,228 ha La Colorada fire, April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,219 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,673 ha La Colorada fire, February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,668 ha in total · 3 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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