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Wildfires in San Ildefonso Amatlán

San Ildefonso Amatlán, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,109 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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. Fri 13 Very low 22° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 22° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 21° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 22° · 40 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Low 21° · 52 % · 53 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 21° · 52 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Moderate 22° · 50 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 22° · 55 % · 41 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in San Ildefonso Amatlán: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,109
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
2
fires
62
km²

How many times has San Ildefonso Amatlán burned?

San Ildefonso Amatlán has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: San José del Peñasco fire, February 2024, with 1,020 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
1,109
cumulative ha
26 Feb 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 San Ildefonso Amatlán

  1. 1,020 ha San José del Peñasco fire, February 2024 17% of the municipality · 3,384 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 89 ha San Cristóbal Amatlán fire, April 2021 1.4% of the municipality · 1,749 ha in total · 4 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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