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Wildfires in Magdalena

Magdalena, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,800 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 23° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 22° · 40 % · 42 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 24° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 23° · 43 % · 19 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

2,800
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
3
fires
1,243
km²

How many times has Magdalena burned?

Magdalena has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Imuris fire, June 2023, with 1,889 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,800 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,624 hectares, 2.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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3
fires
3
years with fire
2,800
cumulative ha
2,624
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

  1. 1,889 ha Imuris fire, June 2023 1.5% of the municipality · 14,877 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 40 ha Nogales fire, April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,383 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 871 ha Cucurpe fire, July 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 2,785 ha in total · 5 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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