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Wildfires in Villa de Cos

Villa de Cos, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,138 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% 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. Thu 12 Very low 18° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 20° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 22° · 25 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Low 23° · 21 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Moderate 23° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Moderate 23° · 37 % · 45 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Moderate 22° · 38 % · 34 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 Cos: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,138
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
2
fires
6,705
km²

How many times has Villa de Cos burned?

Villa de Cos has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2022. The most recent: General Francisco R. Murguía fire, May 2022, with 7 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,138
cumulative ha
18 May 2022
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 Cos

  1. 7 ha General Francisco R. Murguía fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,068 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,132 ha Santo Domingo fire, May 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 4,417 ha in total · 5 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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