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Wildfires in Bacalar

Bacalar, Mexico, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 36,330 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% 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° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 48 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 63 % · 25 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

36,330
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
18
fires
6,094
km²

How many times has Bacalar burned?

Bacalar has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Bacalar fire, 29 May 2024, with 1,719 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,330 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,099 hectares, 5.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
18
fires
7
years with fire
36,330
cumulative ha
32,099
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 Bacalar

  1. 1,719 ha Bacalar fire, 29 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,711 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,414 ha Bacalar fire, 3 May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,398 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 585 ha Hopelchén fire, April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,933 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 448 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, March 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,793 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 6,777 ha Bacalar fire, April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,750 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 427 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 8 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,473 ha in total · 28 days
  7. 3,196 ha Bacalar fire, March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,181 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 2,240 ha Bacalar fire, June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,235 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 499 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,772 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 2,059 ha Bacalar fire, March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 3,002 ha Bacalar fire, April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,986 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 400 ha Hopelchén fire, April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 1,516 ha Bacalar fire, April 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 3,822 ha Bacalar fire, March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,804 ha in total · 23 days
  15. 962 ha Othón P. Blanco fire, 18 March 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,727 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 1,318 ha Bacalar fire, 22 February 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,743 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 2,388 ha Bacalar fire, 18 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,376 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 2,557 ha Bacalar fire, May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,540 ha in total · 26 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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