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Wildfires in Villa Comaltitlán

Villa Comaltitlán, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,690 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% 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. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 58 % · 20 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

4,690
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
3
fires
448
km²

How many times has Villa Comaltitlán burned?

Villa Comaltitlán has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2018 and 2019. The most recent: Villa Comaltitlán fire, April 2019, with 1,841 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,690 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,274 hectares, 7.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
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3
fires
3
years with fire
4,690
cumulative ha
3,274
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 Villa Comaltitlán

  1. 1,841 ha Villa Comaltitlán fire, April 2019 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 2,176 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,439 ha Villa Comaltitlán fire, May 2018 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,516 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,409 ha Villa Comaltitlán fire, April 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,614 ha in total · 3 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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