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Wildfires in Zapotitlán Tablas

Zapotitlán Tablas, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 755 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.3% 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 23° · 41 % · 33 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 48 % · 29 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 36 % · 34 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 22° · 68 % · 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

755
hectares burned
3.3 %
of its area
3
fires
230
km²

How many times has Zapotitlán Tablas burned?

Zapotitlán Tablas has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Copanatoyac fire, April 2021, with 181 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 755 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 716 hectares, 3.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
755
cumulative ha
716
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 Zapotitlán Tablas

  1. 181 ha Copanatoyac fire, April 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 1,728 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 469 ha Copanatoyac fire, March 2017 2.0% of the municipality · 3,086 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 105 ha Atlixtac fire, March 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 2,326 ha in total · 14 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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