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Wildfires in Riva Palacio

Riva Palacio, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 6,622 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% 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 Low 23° · 34 % · 60 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 20° · 40 % · 29 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Moderate 24° · 16 % · 38 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Low 20° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 17° · 41 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 12° · 48 % · 36 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

6,622
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
3
fires
2,270
km²

How many times has Riva Palacio burned?

Riva Palacio has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2023. The most recent: Namiquipa fire, January 2023, with 48 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
6,622
cumulative ha
21 Jan 2023
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 Riva Palacio

  1. 48 ha Namiquipa fire, January 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,099 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,336 ha Riva Palacio fire, 27 May 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,334 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 3,238 ha Riva Palacio fire, 19 May 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,231 ha in total · 13 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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