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Wildfires in Acala

Acala, Mexico, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 7,346 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 53 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 29° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 29° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 30° · 56 % · 28 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

7,346
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
6
fires
485
km²

How many times has Acala burned?

Acala has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Acala fire, April 2024, with 1,669 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,346 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,099 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
7,346
cumulative ha
5,099
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 Acala

  1. 1,669 ha Acala fire, April 2024 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,918 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 0 ha San Lucas fire, March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,166 ha Acala fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,994 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,196 ha Acala fire, 28 March 2019 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 8,616 ha in total · 44 days
  5. 1,426 ha San Lucas fire, March 2018 2.9% of the municipality · 5,008 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 889 ha Chiapa de Corzo fire, January 2018 1.8% of the municipality · 2,702 ha in total · 1 day

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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