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Wildfires in Namiquipa

Namiquipa, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 43,569 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% 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. Sun 1 Moderate 26° · 31 % · 43 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 22° · 33 % · 53 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 21° · 30 % · 17 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 25° · 17 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 22° · 29 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 20° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 19° · 42 % · 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

43,569
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
8
fires
4,883
km²

How many times has Namiquipa burned?

Namiquipa has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2023. The most recent: Namiquipa fire, January 2023, with 3,064 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 43,569 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 40,575 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
4
years with fire
43,569
cumulative ha
40,575
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 Namiquipa

  1. 3,064 ha Namiquipa fire, January 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,099 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,954 ha Namiquipa fire, June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,942 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 30 ha Buenaventura fire, 20 June 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,878 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 160 ha Buenaventura fire, 12 June 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 7,830 ha Chihuahua fire, June 2018 1.6% of the municipality · 16,514 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 17,885 ha Namiquipa fire, 14 April 2018 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 17,992 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,740 ha Namiquipa fire, 13 April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,729 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 10,905 ha Namiquipa fire, March 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 12,816 ha in total · 12 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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