How long did the Cabo Corrientes fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 April 2026 to 25 April 2026 (25 days). The perimeter dates it from 6 April 2026 to 21 April 2026.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,635 hectares (46.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Cabo Corrientes (4,660 ha, 3.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 30.5 °C, humidity dropped to 49 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, class High.

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 · 2026-04-01 → 2026-04-25

Cabo Corrientes fire, April 2026 Cabo Corrientes

Out · last detection 25 Apr 2026, 19:58 UTC

The fire started on 1 April 2026 in Cabo Corrientes, Mexico, and satellites saw it burning for 25 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,635 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 40th largest in Jalisco since 2016 (of 283 with a page). Number 14 in Mexico in 2026, of 145.

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Burnt area: 4,635ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 25days; 1 Apr 2026 – 25 Apr 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 1 Apr; 2026
Heat detections: 460; in a single hotspot: 158 MW
Danger at start: 16; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 305MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Apr25 Apr

Play back 25 Apr 2026

How it evolved, day by day

1 Apr 4 Apr 8 Apr 11 Apr 13 Apr 14 Apr 17 Apr 24 Apr

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

The weather it burned in

30°high

47km/h · peak gust

49%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days 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 2.9% of the area of London (46 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

4,660 ha reached on 1 Apr

3.0 %

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.

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	Rain	Danger (FWI)
1 Apr	28.4 °C	65 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
2 Apr	29.4 °C	55 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
3 Apr	28.5 °C	65 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
4 Apr	28.7 °C	65 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
5 Apr	29.1 °C	66 %	31 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 14
6 Apr	29.4 °C	67 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
7 Apr	28.9 °C	70 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
8 Apr	28.4 °C	71 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
9 Apr	29.0 °C	62 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
10 Apr	29.7 °C	56 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
11 Apr	29.8 °C	56 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
12 Apr	30.4 °C	49 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
13 Apr	30.5 °C	57 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
14 Apr	30.3 °C	58 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
15 Apr	30.5 °C	57 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
16 Apr	30.4 °C	57 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
17 Apr	29.0 °C	64 %	47 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
18 Apr	29.1 °C	64 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
19 Apr	28.4 °C	69 %	32 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 15
20 Apr	29.7 °C	64 %	34 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 15
21 Apr	30.2 °C	64 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
22 Apr	29.8 °C	66 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
23 Apr	28.7 °C	67 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
24 Apr	29.4 °C	62 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
25 Apr	28.1 °C	64 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
26 Apr after	27.6 °C	69 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
27 Apr after	29.0 °C	66 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
28 Apr after	30.1 °C	66 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
29 Apr after	29.9 °C	65 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
30 Apr after	29.1 °C	70 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
1 May after	28.1 °C	71 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
2 May after	28.9 °C	71 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
3 May after	29.0 °C	68 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
4 May after	29.9 °C	62 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
5 May after	29.6 °C	62 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 25 Mar 2026

After · 2 May 2026

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 14 April 2026 the air beside the fire reached 37 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 31: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak37 µg/m³

Days over the guideline3 days

PM1041 µg/m³

Optical depth0.44

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 · 460Every 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 1 April 2026 to 25 April 2026 (25 days). The perimeter dates it from 6 April 2026 to 21 April 2026.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,635 hectares (46.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Cabo Corrientes (4,660 ha, 3.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 30.5 °C, humidity dropped to 49 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, class High.
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.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 6 April 2026 to 21 April 2026. 460 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

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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