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Wildfires in Ocosingo

Ocosingo, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,913 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.1% 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. Fri 23 Very low 23° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 59 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 52 % · 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

19,913
hectares burned
2.1 %
of its area
9
fires
9,637
km²

How many times has Ocosingo burned?

Ocosingo has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Ocosingo fire, March 2024, with 1,851 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,913 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,939 hectares, 2.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
5
years with fire
19,913
cumulative ha
18,939
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 Ocosingo

  1. 1,851 ha Ocosingo fire, March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,839 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 180 ha Altamirano fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 2,005 ha Ocosingo fire, April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,992 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,920 ha Ocosingo fire, 22 April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,906 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,065 ha Ocosingo fire, 21 April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,054 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 4,740 ha Ocosingo fire, 13 April 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,714 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 2,407 ha Ocosingo fire, 22 April 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,395 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 3,231 ha Ocosingo fire, 16 April 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,211 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 1,513 ha Ocosingo fire, May 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,505 ha in total · 7 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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