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Champotón fire, 10 April 2025 Champotón

Out · last detection 15 Apr 2025, 07:30 UTC

The fire started on 10 April 2025 in Champotón, Mexico, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,852 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 77th largest in Campeche since 2016 (of 137 with a page). Number 132 in Mexico in 2025, of 167.

Burnt area
1,852ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
10 Apr 2025 – 14 Apr 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
10 Apr
2025
Heat detections
177
in a single hotspot: 221 MW
Danger at start
44
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

15 Apr 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Apr14 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
46km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

84% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 330 ha in 2017, 124 ha in 2020, 1,676 ha in 2023, 1,163 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,553 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Champotón 15,297 inhabitants where it started
    1,861 ha reached on 10 Apr
    0.3 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre 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)
10 Apr 34.5 °C 21 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
11 Apr 35.3 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Apr 33.9 °C 28 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
13 Apr 34.6 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
14 Apr 34.5 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 39
15 Apr after 36.7 °C 20 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
16 Apr after 35.4 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
17 Apr after 37.4 °C 27 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
18 Apr after 37.9 °C 21 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
19 Apr after 36.6 °C 26 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
20 Apr after 36.9 °C 34 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
21 Apr after 37.5 °C 30 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
22 Apr after 37.3 °C 30 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
23 Apr after 38.3 °C 26 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
24 Apr after 37.8 °C 31 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Apr 2025
After · 21 Apr 2025

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 2025 the air beside the fire reached 31 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak31 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1033 µg/m³
Optical depth0.55
891011121314151617
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 · 177Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Champotón fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 April 2025 and 14 April 2025: 5 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,852 hectares (18.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Champotón (1,861 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very 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.

Emergency number: 911

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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.