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Wildfires in Marquelia

Marquelia, Mexico, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,908 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 75 % · 24 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

3,908
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
5
fires
212
km²

How many times has Marquelia burned?

Marquelia has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Marquelia fire, April 2023, with 1,745 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,908 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,472 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
3,908
cumulative ha
3,472
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 Marquelia

  1. 1,745 ha Marquelia fire, April 2023 where it started 8.2% of the municipality · 1,940 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 26 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 4,134 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 0 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, 7 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,134 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,185 ha Marquelia fire, March 2017 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 1,527 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 951 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, 16 March 2017 4.5% of the municipality · 3,934 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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