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MX · Mexico · Michoacan de Ocampo · 126,191 inhabitants

Wildfires in Apatzingán

Apatzingán, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,443 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 32° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 83 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 64 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 73 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 56 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 66 % · 17 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

14,443
hectares burned
8.8 %
of its area
8
fires
1,649
km²

How many times has Apatzingán burned?

Apatzingán has burned 8 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Apatzingán fire, April 2025, with 2,593 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
8
years with fire
14,443
cumulative ha
16 Apr 2025
most recent

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 Apatzingán

  1. 2,593 ha Apatzingán fire, April 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,610 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 767 ha Tumbiscatío fire, April 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 1,626 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 26 ha Tancítaro fire, April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,558 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 3,223 ha Tumbiscatío fire, 21 April 2021 2.0% of the municipality · 4,471 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 309 ha Tumbiscatío fire, 19 May 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,140 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 3,830 ha Apatzingán fire, April 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,513 ha Apatzingán fire, May 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,506 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,184 ha Apatzingán fire, April 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,454 ha in total · 5 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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