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Wildfires in Villa de Álvarez

Villa de Álvarez, Mexico, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2024: 2,461 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 13 Low 30° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Low 29° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 29° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 30° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 31° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 30° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Moderate 32° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 31° · 46 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Villa de Álvarez: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,461
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
1
fires
289
km²

How many times has Villa de Álvarez burned?

Villa de Álvarez has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2024. The most recent: Villa de Álvarez fire, May 2024, with 2,461 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
2,461
cumulative ha
26 May 2024
most recent

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 de Álvarez

  1. 2,461 ha Villa de Álvarez fire, May 2024 where it started 8.5% of the municipality · 4,208 ha in total · 19 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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