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Wildfires in Magdalena Jaltepec

Magdalena Jaltepec, Mexico, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 4,437 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Tue 10 Moderate 24° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Moderate 25° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Moderate 24° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 21° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 22° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 22° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Low 23° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Moderate 22° · 50 % · 36 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 Magdalena Jaltepec: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,437
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
5
fires
236
km²

How many times has Magdalena Jaltepec burned?

Magdalena Jaltepec has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: San Juan Tamazola fire, May 2024, with 1,050 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,437 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,808 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
4,437
cumulative ha
3,808
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 Magdalena Jaltepec

  1. 1,050 ha San Juan Tamazola fire, May 2024 4.4% of the municipality · 1,827 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 194 ha San Juan Tamazola fire, April 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 1,734 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 1,829 ha Asunción Nochixtlán fire, April 2021 7.8% of the municipality · 3,247 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,226 ha Yutanduchi de Guerrero fire, March 2021 5.2% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 138 ha Santiago Tilantongo fire, April 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 10,037 ha in total · 8 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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