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Wildfires in Balleza

Balleza, Mexico, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 26,273 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 19° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 83 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 35 % · 39 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 33 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 27° · 19 % · 43 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 24° · 24 % · 60 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 21° · 16 % · 48 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

26,273
hectares burned
4.9 %
of its area
12
fires
5,394
km²

How many times has Balleza burned?

Balleza has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Balleza fire, May 2025, with 2,723 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
12
fires
5
years with fire
26,273
cumulative ha
4 May 2025
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 Balleza

  1. 2,723 ha Balleza fire, May 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,714 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,316 ha Balleza fire, March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,848 ha Balleza fire, June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,839 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,609 ha Balleza fire, 23 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,605 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,926 ha Balleza fire, 20 May 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,913 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,818 ha Balleza fire, 13 June 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,812 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 4,423 ha Balleza fire, 10 June 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,405 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 2,126 ha Balleza fire, 12 June 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,119 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,849 ha Balleza fire, 12 June 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,848 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,749 ha Balleza fire, 6 June 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,746 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 853 ha Guadalupe y Calvo fire, 24 April 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,809 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 33 ha Ocampo fire, 18 May 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,748 ha in total · 11 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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