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Wildfires in Leonardo Bravo

Leonardo Bravo, Mexico, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 27,807 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Mon 2 Low 26° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 27° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 26° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 24° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 24° · 56 % · 27 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

27,807
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
16
fires
725
km²

How many times has Leonardo Bravo burned?

Leonardo Bravo has burned 16 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Leonardo Bravo fire, May 2024, with 3,250 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,807 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,927 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
16
fires
7
years with fire
27,807
cumulative ha
17,927
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 Leonardo Bravo

  1. 3,250 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, May 2024 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 3,233 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 538 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, April 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,799 ha in total · 25 days
  3. 1,765 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, May 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,755 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 13 ha Chilpancingo de los Bravo fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,399 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 4,085 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, April 2021 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 16,614 ha in total · 28 days
  6. 1,236 ha Chilpancingo de los Bravo fire, 22 May 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 2,298 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,751 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, May 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,741 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 4,066 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, April 2020 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 4,045 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 2,096 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, 8 May 2019 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 1,728 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, 8 May 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,719 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 814 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, 5 May 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,283 ha in total · 20 days
  12. 2,777 ha Eduardo Neri fire, April 2019 3.8% of the municipality · 6,407 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 621 ha Chilpancingo de los Bravo fire, 10 April 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 4,608 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 136 ha Eduardo Neri fire, March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,732 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,209 ha Chilpancingo de los Bravo fire, 9 April 2017 1.7% of the municipality · 8,093 ha in total · 26 days
  16. 1,722 ha Leonardo Bravo fire, April 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,326 ha in total · 13 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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