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Wildfires in Acatepec

Acatepec, Mexico, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 12,865 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 23 Very low 27° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 23° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 53 % · 32 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

12,865
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
14
fires
634
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Acatepec

  1. 153 ha Ayutla de los Libres fire, May 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,771 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 635 ha Acatepec fire, April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,383 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,723 ha Acatepec fire, June 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,615 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,900 ha Acatepec fire, May 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,889 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 233 ha Ayutla de los Libres fire, May 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 3,085 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 508 ha Quechultenango fire, February 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 3,002 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 93 ha Ayutla de los Libres fire, 8 May 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,499 ha Acatepec fire, May 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,577 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 29 ha Quechultenango fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,742 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,495 ha Acatepec fire, May 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,137 ha Acatepec fire, April 2019 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,125 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 511 ha Quechultenango fire, March 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 2,250 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 234 ha Ayutla de los Libres fire, April 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 2,548 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 1,716 ha Acatepec fire, April 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 7 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).