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Wildfires in Mexicali

Mexicali, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,852 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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. Thu 22 Moderate 28° · 50 % · 50 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Moderate 27° · 44 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Low 26° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 29° · 37 % · 51 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 28° · 48 % · 52 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Moderate 27° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 54 % · 23 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

1,852
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
3
fires
15,887
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mexicali

  1. 765 ha Ensenada fire, June 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,344 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 556 ha Ensenada fire, 6 June 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,556 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 530 ha Ensenada fire, 27 June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,954 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).