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Wildfires in Acaponeta

Acaponeta, Mexico, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 23,420 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Thu 5 Low 29° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Low 29° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Low 29° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 29° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Low 29° · 51 % · 27 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 29° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 29° · 58 % · 23 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Acaponeta: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

23,420
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
11
fires
1,434
km²

How many times has Acaponeta burned?

Acaponeta has burned 11 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Acaponeta fire, May 2026, with 1,579 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,420 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,353 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
8
years with fire
23,420
cumulative ha
22,353
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 Acaponeta

  1. 1,579 ha Acaponeta fire, May 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,571 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 792 ha Rosamorada fire, April 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 4,170 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 2,763 ha Acaponeta fire, 13 May 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,751 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,116 ha Acaponeta fire, 8 May 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,939 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 1,795 ha Acaponeta fire, June 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,840 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 3,906 ha Acaponeta fire, May 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,891 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 438 ha Rosamorada fire, June 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 1,887 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 494 ha Acaponeta fire, June 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,579 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 10 ha Rosamorada fire, May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,840 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 1,864 ha Acaponeta fire, May 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,854 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 7,662 ha Acaponeta fire, May 2016 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 7,306 ha in total · 28 days

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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