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Wildfires in Tumbalá

Tumbalá, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,830 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.5% 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. Fri 23 Very low 24° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 67 % · 27 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

3,830
hectares burned
9.5 %
of its area
2
fires
404
km²

How many times has Tumbalá burned?

Tumbalá has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2018. The most recent: Tumbalá fire, April 2018, with 1,885 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,830 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,056 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
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2
fires
2
years with fire
3,830
cumulative ha
3,056
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 Tumbalá

  1. 1,885 ha Tumbalá fire, April 2018 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 1,875 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,945 ha Tumbalá fire, April 2017 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 1,935 ha in total · 9 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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