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Wildfires in Nogales

Nogales, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 3,685 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Fri 13 Moderate 18° · 38 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 16° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 19° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Low 20° · 41 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 17° · 57 % · 56 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 16° · 44 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 17° · 45 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Low 14° · 62 % · 49 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Nogales: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,685
hectares burned
2.1 %
of its area
2
fires
1,761
km²

How many times has Nogales burned?

Nogales has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Nogales fire, June 2021, with 1,337 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
3,685
cumulative ha
20 Jun 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 Nogales

  1. 1,337 ha Nogales fire, June 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,201 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,348 ha Nogales fire, April 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,383 ha in total · 5 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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