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Wildfires in Tlapehuala

Tlapehuala, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,027 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 32° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 33° · 45 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 33° · 47 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 33° · 47 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 33° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 33° · 47 % · 20 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 34° · 51 % · 19 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

8,027
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
3
fires
286
km²

How many times has Tlapehuala burned?

Tlapehuala has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Tlapehuala fire, April 2023, with 3,100 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,027 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,546 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
8,027
cumulative ha
3,546
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 Tlapehuala

  1. 3,100 ha Tlapehuala fire, April 2023 where it started 11% of the municipality · 3,473 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,105 ha Tlapehuala fire, April 2020 where it started 11% of the municipality · 3,567 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,822 ha Tlapehuala fire, March 2017 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 1,833 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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