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Wildfires in Mexico

2,845 fires over 1,500 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 10,040,243 hectares burned across 778 municipalities.

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Mexico, at this point in the year: 1,343,516 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 4,234,471.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20254,478,136 ha

Worst year2019 6,172,560 ha

With a page here2,845 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	4,390	1,343,516	GWIS
2025	6,300	2,485,892	GWIS
2024	9,399	4,015,924	GWIS
2023	13,034	4,540,162	GWIS
2022	14,962	4,408,639	GWIS
2021	13,609	4,456,077	GWIS
2020	13,497	4,345,987	GWIS
2019	17,421	6,172,560	GWIS
2018	11,518	3,893,345	GWIS
2017	17,254	6,144,979	GWIS
2016	14,128	4,317,795	GWIS
2015	11,359	3,094,772	GWIS
2014	7,570	2,027,012	GWIS
2013	17,698	5,851,114	GWIS
2012	13,199	4,670,295	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	13k	54k	54k	125k	136k	2k	8k	10k	3k	2k			406,933	Magdalena 17,831 ha
2025	24k	11k	138k	286k	202k	20k	6k	2k			2k	3k	694,581	Madera 51,926 ha
2024	10k	11k	191k	336k	435k	50k			2k			3k	1,036,911	Coyuca de Catalán 27,274 ha
2023	5k	22k	109k	253k	365k	191k	9k			3k		2k	958,772	Mezquital 19,923 ha
2022		19k	89k	240k	399k	25k	8k						779,773	Coahuayutla de José María Izazaga 29,347 ha
2021	7k	3k	202k	446k	258k	100k		3k		6k			1,025,288	Coyuca de Catalán 26,163 ha
2020		11k	84k	210k	404k	16k	8k	18k	18k	12k		4k	784,883	Coahuayutla de José María Izazaga 45,560 ha
2019			71k	606k	640k	82k	14k	8k		34k			1,455,146	Durango 38,155 ha
2018	9k		89k	275k	387k	102k	15k	3k					881,033	Madera 36,227 ha
2017	7k	26k	274k	422k	412k	234k		8k	2k	4k		6k	1,395,183	Coyuca de Catalán 43,113 ha
2016		29k	34k	255k	200k	81k	7k	2k	2k			11k	621,740	Tomatlán 30,503 ha