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Wildfires in Santiago

Santiago, Mexico, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 23,085 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% 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. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 21° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 94 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 84 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 14° · 82 % · 28 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 15° · 67 % · 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

23,085
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
5
fires
742
km²

How many times has Santiago burned?

Santiago has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Santiago fire, May 2024, with 1,955 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,085 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,352 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
23,085
cumulative ha
22,352
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 Santiago

  1. 1,955 ha Santiago fire, May 2024 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,204 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 844 ha Santa Catarina fire, June 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 4,826 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 11,432 ha Santiago fire, March 2022 where it started 15% of the municipality · 12,179 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 3,424 ha Santiago fire, March 2021 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 3,410 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 5,430 ha Arteaga fire, March 2021 7.3% of the municipality · 10,689 ha in total · 16 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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