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Wildfires in Múzquiz

Múzquiz, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,397 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% 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. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 89 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 47 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 23° · 41 % · 45 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 46 % · 26 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

2,397
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
2
fires
8,324
km²

How many times has Múzquiz burned?

Múzquiz has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Múzquiz fire, July 2022, with 2,390 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,397
cumulative ha
29 Jul 2022
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 Múzquiz

  1. 2,390 ha Múzquiz fire, July 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,391 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 6 ha San Buenaventura fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,410 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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