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Wildfires in Mesones Hidalgo

Mesones Hidalgo, Mexico, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,534 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 50 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 46 % · 30 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

3,534
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
4
fires
175
km²

How many times has Mesones Hidalgo burned?

Mesones Hidalgo has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2022. The most recent: Mesones Hidalgo fire, May 2022, with 1,411 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,534 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,650 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
3,534
cumulative ha
2,650
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 Mesones Hidalgo

  1. 1,411 ha Mesones Hidalgo fire, May 2022 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 1,556 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,043 ha Mesones Hidalgo fire, May 2019 where it started 12% of the municipality · 2,136 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 6 ha Putla Villa de Guerrero fire, April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,816 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 74 ha Putla Villa de Guerrero fire, April 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 1,908 ha in total · 7 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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