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Wildfires in Miquihuana

Miquihuana, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 4,653 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 Low 23° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 25° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 26° · 31 % · 38 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 21° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 25° · 26 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 48 % · 42 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 18° · 69 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 56 % · 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

4,653
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
2
fires
890
km²

How many times has Miquihuana burned?

Miquihuana has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Bustamante fire, May 2021, with 856 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
4,653
cumulative ha
3 May 2021
most recent

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 Miquihuana

  1. 856 ha Bustamante fire, May 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 1,821 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,797 ha Bustamante fire, April 2021 4.3% of the municipality · 9,183 ha in total · 17 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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