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Wildfires in Asunción Ixtaltepec

Asunción Ixtaltepec, Mexico, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 6,476 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 67 % · 60 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 62 % · 59 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 29° · 50 % · 58 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 29° · 50 % · 61 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 29° · 55 % · 64 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 30° · 59 % · 53 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 34° · 52 % · 44 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 63 % · 49 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

6,476
hectares burned
9.8 %
of its area
4
fires
663
km²

How many times has Asunción Ixtaltepec burned?

Asunción Ixtaltepec has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Asunción Ixtaltepec fire, May 2026, with 1,567 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,476 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,919 hectares, 5.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
6,476
cumulative ha
3,919
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 Asunción Ixtaltepec

  1. 1,567 ha Asunción Ixtaltepec fire, May 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,595 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,752 ha Asunción Ixtaltepec fire, May 2022 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,741 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,471 ha Asunción Ixtaltepec fire, April 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,659 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,686 ha El Barrio de la Soledad fire, April 2019 2.5% of the municipality · 2,707 ha in total · 16 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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