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Wildfires in Tepalcatepec

Tepalcatepec, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 1,511 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 88 % · 10 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 64 % · 14 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 78 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 88 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 69 % · 21 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

1,511
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
3
fires
802
km²

How many times has Tepalcatepec burned?

Tepalcatepec has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Tecalitlán fire, April 2023, with 268 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,511 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,434 hectares, 1.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,511
cumulative ha
1,434
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 Tepalcatepec

  1. 268 ha Tecalitlán fire, April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,677 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 151 ha Tepalcatepec fire, May 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,180 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 1,093 ha Tecalitlán fire, April 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 8 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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