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Wildfires in Rayón

Rayón, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 1,070 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 Moderate 26° · 34 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 28° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 28° · 20 % · 30 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 32 % · 24 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 83 % · 47 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 54 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 84 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 49 % · 32 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

1,070
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
3
fires
883
km²

How many times has Rayón burned?

Rayón has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Aconchi fire, February 2022, with 772 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,070
cumulative ha
10 Feb 2022
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 Rayón

  1. 772 ha Aconchi fire, February 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 2,120 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 297 ha Opodepe fire, May 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 0 ha Ures fire, May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,661 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).

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