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Wildfires in Taretan

Taretan, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 393 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 31 Very low 28° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 27° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 65 % · 25 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

393
hectares burned
2.1 %
of its area
2
fires
186
km²

How many times has Taretan burned?

Taretan has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Ziracuaretiro fire, May 2022, with 380 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
393
cumulative ha
1 May 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 Taretan

  1. 380 ha Ziracuaretiro fire, May 2022 2.0% of the municipality · 1,838 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 13 ha Uruapan fire, April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,629 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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