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Wildfires in Pátzcuaro

Pátzcuaro, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,695 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 2 Very low 22° · 43 % · 29 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 24° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 23° · 43 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 23° · 29 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 20° · 44 % · 31 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

1,695
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
2
fires
440
km²

How many times has Pátzcuaro burned?

Pátzcuaro has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Pátzcuaro fire, May 2024, with 1,596 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,695
cumulative ha
2 May 2024
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 Pátzcuaro

  1. 1,596 ha Pátzcuaro fire, May 2024 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,587 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 99 ha Erongarícuaro fire, April 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,533 ha in total · 15 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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