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Wildfires in Calakmul

Calakmul, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 1,532 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Low 31° · 40 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 30° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 31° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 32° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 54 % · 16 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

1,532
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
2
fires
14,056
km²

How many times has Calakmul burned?

Calakmul has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Calakmul fire, April 2026, with 1,531 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,532
cumulative ha
19 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 Calakmul

  1. 1,531 ha Calakmul fire, April 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,526 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 0 ha Candelaria fire, May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,654 ha in total · 14 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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