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Wildfires in Balancán

Balancán, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,495 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% 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. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 30° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 30° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 30° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 67 % · 22 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

4,495
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
3
fires
3,597
km²

How many times has Balancán burned?

Balancán has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Balancán fire, April 2026, with 1,509 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
4,495
cumulative ha
28 Apr 2026
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 Balancán

  1. 1,509 ha Balancán fire, April 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,500 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,536 ha Balancán fire, April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,526 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,451 ha Balancán fire, March 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,777 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).

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