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Wildfires in Nuevo Ideal

Nuevo Ideal, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 2,606 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% 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. Sat 7 Low 22° · 22 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Low 21° · 23 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 20° · 34 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Low 22° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Low 20° · 23 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 13° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 21° · 31 % · 36 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 Nuevo Ideal: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,606
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
2
fires
1,860
km²

How many times has Nuevo Ideal burned?

Nuevo Ideal has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Nuevo Ideal fire, May 2023, with 2,047 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,606
cumulative ha
30 May 2023
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 Nuevo Ideal

  1. 2,047 ha Nuevo Ideal fire, May 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,647 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 559 ha Canatlán fire, May 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 2,696 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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