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Wildfires in Olinalá

Olinalá, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 2,272 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Low 28° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 26° · 48 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 27° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 41 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 45 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 56 % · 17 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

2,272
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
3
fires
711
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Olinalá

  1. 755 ha Atenango del Río fire, 10 March 2024 1.1% of the municipality · 11,437 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 909 ha Copalillo fire, March 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 2,620 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 609 ha Olinalá fire, March 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,222 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).