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Wildfires in Othón P. Blanco

Othón P. Blanco, Mexico, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 25,735 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 60 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 76 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 73 % · 21 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

25,735
hectares burned
2.6 %
of its area
12
fires
10,013
km²

How many times has Othón P. Blanco burned?

Othón P. Blanco has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Othón P. Blanco fire, March 2022, with 1,355 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 25,735 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,926 hectares, 2.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
12
fires
5
years with fire
25,735
cumulative ha
24,926
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 Othón P. Blanco

  1. 1,355 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,793 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 2,256 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 21 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,243 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,230 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 18 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,217 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 1,762 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 9 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,752 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 2,060 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,473 ha in total · 28 days
  6. 5,101 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 5 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,066 ha in total · 31 days
  7. 2,120 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 1 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 1,283 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, March 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,772 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 1,783 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 18 March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,727 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 1,544 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 17 March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,534 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 2,613 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 23 May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,594 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 1,628 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 22 May 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,617 ha in total · 9 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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