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Wildfires in San Gabriel

San Gabriel, Mexico, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 21,115 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 23° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 23° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 22° · 57 % · 35 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

21,115
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
5
fires
750
km²

How many times has San Gabriel burned?

San Gabriel has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2023. The most recent: San Gabriel fire, June 2023, with 2,164 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,115 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,642 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
21,115
cumulative ha
16,642
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 San Gabriel

  1. 2,164 ha San Gabriel fire, June 2023 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,153 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 295 ha Tuxpan fire, 9 May 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,837 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 13,058 ha San Gabriel fire, May 2019 where it started 17% of the municipality · 18,872 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 4,798 ha San Gabriel fire, May 2017 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 4,774 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 800 ha Tapalpa fire, April 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 1,790 ha in total · 14 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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