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Wildfires in Petatlán

Petatlán, Mexico, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 42,356 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% 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 28° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 83 % · 15 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 72 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 70 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 62 % · 27 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

42,356
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
23
fires
1,983
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Petatlán

  1. 1,876 ha Petatlán fire, May 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,866 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,265 ha Petatlán fire, April 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,248 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,814 ha Petatlán fire, May 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,804 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,633 ha Petatlán fire, May 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,624 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 56 ha Coyuca de Catalán fire, 17 May 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,098 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,812 ha Petatlán fire, April 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,802 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,617 ha Petatlán fire, 19 May 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,609 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 65 ha Zihuatanejo de Azueta fire, 16 May 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,245 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 2,374 ha Petatlán fire, 15 May 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 4,222 ha Petatlán fire, 12 May 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,198 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,555 ha Petatlán fire, 8 May 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,548 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,776 ha Petatlán fire, 4 May 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,768 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,593 ha Petatlán fire, 2 May 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 1,139 ha Petatlán fire, May 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,577 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 2 ha Coyuca de Catalán fire, 1 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 10,278 ha in total · 25 days
  16. 1,785 ha Petatlán fire, 28 April 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,775 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 3,277 ha Petatlán fire, 27 April 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,159 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 2,631 ha Petatlán fire, March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,617 ha in total · 19 days
  19. 1,952 ha Petatlán fire, April 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,940 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 2,496 ha Petatlán fire, May 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,482 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 72 ha Zihuatanejo de Azueta fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,839 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 3,272 ha Petatlán fire, April 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,254 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 2,073 ha Petatlán fire, April 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,062 ha in total · 6 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).