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Wildfires in Ocampo

Ocampo, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 9,535 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.6% 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. Sat 24 Very low 23° · 48 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 47 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 45 % · 29 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 61 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 68 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 50 % · 28 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

9,535
hectares burned
2.6 %
of its area
3
fires
3,661
km²

How many times has Ocampo burned?

Ocampo has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Ocampo fire, March 2022, with 3,004 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
9,535
cumulative ha
21 Mar 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 Ocampo

  1. 3,004 ha Ocampo fire, March 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,843 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 718 ha Ocampo fire, 18 May 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,748 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 5,813 ha Ocampo fire, 9 May 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,783 ha in total · 18 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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