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Wildfires in Turicato

Turicato, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 14,835 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.5% 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. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 54 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 55 % · 33 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

14,835
hectares burned
9.5 %
of its area
8
fires
1,555
km²

How many times has Turicato burned?

Turicato has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Huetamo fire, May 2024, with 1,569 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,835 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,958 hectares, 7.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
3
years with fire
14,835
cumulative ha
11,958
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 Turicato

  1. 1,569 ha Huetamo fire, May 2024 1.0% of the municipality · 2,552 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,045 ha Turicato fire, May 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 36 ha La Huacana fire, May 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 4,267 ha Turicato fire, 7 May 2020 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 6,591 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 2,499 ha Turicato fire, 7 May 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,486 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,256 ha Turicato fire, April 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,447 ha Turicato fire, 10 April 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,716 ha Turicato fire, 7 April 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,706 ha in total · 7 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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