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Wildfires in Otáez

Otáez, Mexico, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 22,865 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 24° · 34 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 40 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 33 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 37 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 23° · 28 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 23° · 27 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 42 % · 46 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

22,865
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
11
fires
1,717
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Otáez

  1. 35 ha Santiago Papasquiaro fire, June 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,824 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 6,039 ha Otáez fire, May 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 6,026 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 1,546 ha Otáez fire, May 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,539 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 7,127 ha Otáez fire, April 2022 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 7,103 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 378 ha Santiago Papasquiaro fire, 26 May 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,543 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,812 ha Otáez fire, May 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,267 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 2,605 ha Otáez fire, May 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 812 ha San Dimas fire, 14 May 2018 0.5% of the municipality · 3,011 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,390 ha Otáez fire, April 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,701 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 28 ha San Dimas fire, June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 93 ha Tamazula fire, 28 May 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,908 ha in total · 10 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).