How long did the Cabo Corrientes fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 March 2025 to 28 March 2025 (16 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 March 2025 to 28 March 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,276 hectares (42.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Cabo Corrientes (4,297 ha, 2.8 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 28.8 °C, humidity dropped to 46 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mexico (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

MX · Mexico · 2025-03-13 → 2025-03-28

Cabo Corrientes fire, 13 March 2025 Cabo Corrientes

Out · last detection 28 Mar 2025, 08:07 UTC

The fire started on 13 March 2025 in Cabo Corrientes, Mexico, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,276 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 49th largest in Jalisco since 2016 (of 283 with a page). Number 42 in Mexico in 2025, of 166.

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Burnt area: 4,276ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 16days; 13 Mar 2025 – 28 Mar 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 13 Mar; 2025
Heat detections: 399; in a single hotspot: 81 MW
Danger at start: 21; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 238MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Mar28 Mar

Play back 28 Mar 2025

How it evolved, day by day

13 Mar 15 Mar 19 Mar 21 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 27 Mar

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

29°high

47km/h · peak gust

46%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 2.7% of the area of London (43 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Cabo Corrientes where it started

4,297 ha reached on 13 Mar

2.8 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025

Built-up area0.46 ha

Residents≈ 30

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.46 hectares of built-up land and about 30 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day	High	Min. humidity	Peak gust	Danger (FWI)
14 Mar	27.9 °C	52 %	38 km/h	Moderate 21
15 Mar	24.8 °C	60 %	47 km/h	Moderate 19
16 Mar	26.9 °C	57 %	36 km/h	Moderate 18
17 Mar	26.8 °C	71 %	34 km/h	Moderate 13
18 Mar	27.0 °C	68 %	27 km/h	Moderate 12
19 Mar	27.8 °C	58 %	31 km/h	Moderate 14
20 Mar	27.8 °C	56 %	27 km/h	Moderate 15
21 Mar	27.3 °C	58 %	27 km/h	Moderate 14
22 Mar	28.6 °C	53 %	29 km/h	Moderate 16
23 Mar	28.8 °C	46 %	33 km/h	Moderate 19
24 Mar	28.3 °C	47 %	31 km/h	Moderate 19
25 Mar	27.2 °C	58 %	29 km/h	Moderate 17
26 Mar	26.8 °C	54 %	28 km/h	Moderate 17
27 Mar	27.6 °C	55 %	30 km/h	Moderate 18
28 Mar	27.4 °C	54 %	29 km/h	Moderate 18
29 Mar after	27.0 °C	57 %	30 km/h	Moderate 18
30 Mar after	27.3 °C	57 %	32 km/h	Moderate 19
31 Mar after	27.8 °C	54 %	30 km/h	Moderate 19
1 Apr after	27.9 °C	55 %	30 km/h	Moderate 19
2 Apr after	27.3 °C	58 %	32 km/h	Moderate 19
3 Apr after	26.6 °C	63 %	32 km/h	Moderate 17
4 Apr after	26.2 °C	68 %	31 km/h	Moderate 16
5 Apr after	26.3 °C	64 %	39 km/h	Moderate 16
6 Apr after	25.3 °C	63 %	33 km/h	Moderate 16
7 Apr after	26.1 °C	58 %	35 km/h	Moderate 16

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

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Before · 6 Mar 2025

After · 4 Apr 2025

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 25 March 2025 the air beside the fire reached 44 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 27: 1.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak44 µg/m³

Days over the guideline3 days

PM1050 µg/m³

Optical depth0.30

WHO 15

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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 399Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.

Date and time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Cabo Corrientes fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 March 2025 to 28 March 2025 (16 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 March 2025 to 28 March 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,276 hectares (42.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Cabo Corrientes (4,297 ha, 2.8 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 28.8 °C, humidity dropped to 46 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mexico (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 14 March 2025 to 28 March 2025. 399 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
We have not matched this page with any official record.
Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.

Where it burned