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Wildfires in Minatitlán

Minatitlán, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 2,315 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% 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. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 63 % · 31 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 62 % · 27 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

2,315
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
2
fires
417
km²

How many times has Minatitlán burned?

Minatitlán has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Villa de Álvarez fire, May 2024, with 1,241 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,315 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,101 hectares, 5.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
2,315
cumulative ha
2,101
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 Minatitlán

  1. 1,241 ha Villa de Álvarez fire, May 2024 3.0% of the municipality · 4,348 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 1,074 ha Minatitlán fire, May 2022 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,114 ha in total · 10 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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