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Wildfires in Tancítaro

Tancítaro, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,800 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% 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. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 72 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 69 % · 29 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 69 % · 37 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 72 % · 28 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

3,800
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
2
fires
718
km²

How many times has Tancítaro burned?

Tancítaro has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2022. The most recent: Tancítaro fire, April 2022, with 3,514 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
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  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
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  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,800
cumulative ha
18 Apr 2022
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 Tancítaro

  1. 3,514 ha Tancítaro fire, April 2022 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 3,558 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 286 ha Apatzingán fire, April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 2,454 ha in total · 5 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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