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Wildfires in Las Margaritas

Las Margaritas, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 2,136 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% 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. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 83 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 24° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 25° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 24° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 24° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 23° · 68 % · 39 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 22° · 67 % · 41 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Las Margaritas: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,136
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
2
fires
3,033
km²

How many times has Las Margaritas burned?

Las Margaritas has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2024. The most recent: La Independencia fire, May 2024, with 1,112 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
2,136
cumulative ha
5 May 2024
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 Las Margaritas

  1. 1,112 ha La Independencia fire, May 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,023 ha Las Margaritas fire, May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,754 ha in total · 10 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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