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Wildfires in Calkiní

Calkiní, Mexico, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 16,519 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 28° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 56 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 67 % · 19 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

16,519
hectares burned
7.8 %
of its area
7
fires
2,111
km²

How many times has Calkiní burned?

Calkiní has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Calkiní fire, September 2026, with 1,748 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,519 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,033 hectares, 6.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
16,519
cumulative ha
13,033
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 Calkiní

  1. 1,748 ha Calkiní fire, September 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,739 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,692 ha Calkiní fire, May 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,685 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,659 ha Calkiní fire, April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,651 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,484 ha Calkiní fire, April 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,583 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,309 ha Calkiní fire, June 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,293 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,075 ha Calkiní fire, 24 May 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 4,552 ha Calkiní fire, 21 May 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,531 ha in total · 4 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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