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Wildfires in Tangamandapio

Tangamandapio, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 3,580 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Thu 5 Moderate 28° · 20 % · 29 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 28° · 21 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Moderate 28° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Moderate 27° · 39 % · 36 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Low 27° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 37 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 27° · 37 % · 31 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 Tangamandapio: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,580
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
2
fires
318
km²

How many times has Tangamandapio burned?

Tangamandapio has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Tangamandapio fire, March 2024, with 1,946 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,580 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,429 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
3,580
cumulative ha
2,429
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 Tangamandapio

  1. 1,946 ha Tangamandapio fire, March 2024 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 1,936 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,633 ha Tangamandapio fire, March 2021 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 1,625 ha in total · 13 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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