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Wildfires in Tuxcacuesco

Tuxcacuesco, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 5,337 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Tue 3 Low 32° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 32° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 32° · 37 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 33° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Moderate 32° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Moderate 32° · 34 % · 31 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 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

5,337
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
3
fires
433
km²

How many times has Tuxcacuesco burned?

Tuxcacuesco has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Cuautitlán de García Barragán fire, 6 May 2022, with 301 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,337 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,548 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
5,337
cumulative ha
4,548
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 Tuxcacuesco

  1. 301 ha Cuautitlán de García Barragán fire, 6 May 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 371 ha Cuautitlán de García Barragán fire, 6 May 2017 0.9% of the municipality · 10,122 ha in total · 29 days
  3. 4,666 ha Tuxcacuesco fire, April 2017 where it started 11% of the municipality · 10,846 ha in total · 22 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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