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Wildfires in Santiago Jamiltepec

Santiago Jamiltepec, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,806 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 14 Very low 32° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 31° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Moderate 31° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 33° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 33° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Moderate 32° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 32° · 55 % · 29 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 Santiago Jamiltepec: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,806
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
2
fires
641
km²

How many times has Santiago Jamiltepec burned?

Santiago Jamiltepec has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Santiago Jamiltepec fire, April 2020, with 2,441 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,806 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,277 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
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  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
7,806
cumulative ha
7,277
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 Jamiltepec

  1. 2,441 ha Santiago Jamiltepec fire, April 2020 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,429 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 5,364 ha Santiago Jamiltepec fire, February 2017 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 5,337 ha in total · 20 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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