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Wildfires in Arcelia

Arcelia, Mexico, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 29,005 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 33 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 52 % · 14 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 71 % · 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

29,005
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
15
fires
758
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Arcelia

  1. 2,650 ha Arcelia fire, April 2025 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,802 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 3,107 ha San Miguel Totolapan fire, 22 March 2024 4.1% of the municipality · 8,031 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 0 ha San Miguel Totolapan fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 5,144 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 3,255 ha Arcelia fire, April 2021 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 3,238 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 979 ha Apaxtla fire, April 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 11,305 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 259 ha San Miguel Totolapan fire, April 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,999 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,620 ha Arcelia fire, March 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,607 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 2,156 ha Arcelia fire, 4 May 2019 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,144 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 2,925 ha Arcelia fire, 4 May 2019 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,909 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 46 ha Apaxtla fire, April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,755 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,551 ha Arcelia fire, April 2019 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,536 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 2,947 ha Arcelia fire, March 2017 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,933 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 2,265 ha Arcelia fire, May 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 915 ha Arcelia fire, April 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,597 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,330 ha Arcelia fire, March 2016 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,317 ha in total · 13 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).