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Wildfires in Arriaga

Arriaga, Mexico, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 31,801 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 73 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 28 % · 73 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 37 % · 72 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 50 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 31 % · 45 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 37 % · 61 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 32 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 59 % · 34 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

31,801
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
20
fires
813
km²

How many times has Arriaga burned?

Arriaga has burned 20 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Arriaga fire, May 2026, with 1,654 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,801 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 22,017 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
20
fires
9
years with fire
31,801
cumulative ha
22,017
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 Arriaga

  1. 1,654 ha Arriaga fire, May 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,912 ha Arriaga fire, February 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,901 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,154 ha Arriaga fire, January 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,143 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 3,852 ha Arriaga fire, January 2024 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 6,912 ha in total · 31 days
  5. 866 ha Arriaga fire, December 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,704 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,010 ha San Pedro Tapanatepec fire, February 2023 1.2% of the municipality · 1,584 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 615 ha Tonalá fire, February 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 1,542 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 5 ha San Pedro Tapanatepec fire, 25 February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,740 ha Arriaga fire, April 2021 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,896 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 3,406 ha Arriaga fire, 19 March 2021 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 5,611 ha in total · 28 days
  11. 1,067 ha Arriaga fire, 14 March 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,067 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 1,476 ha San Pedro Tapanatepec fire, April 2019 1.8% of the municipality · 4,561 ha in total · 20 days
  13. 470 ha Tonalá fire, January 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 1,766 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,154 ha Arriaga fire, January 2018 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,786 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 5,631 ha Arriaga fire, March 2017 where it started 6.9% of the municipality · 5,611 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 5 ha Jiquipilas fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,823 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 335 ha Arriaga fire, April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,956 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 304 ha San Pedro Tapanatepec fire, March 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 23 days
  19. 3,020 ha Arriaga fire, February 2016 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,004 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 125 ha Tonalá fire, February 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,589 ha in total · 2 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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