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Wildfires in Centla

Centla, Mexico, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 52,367 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 30° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 53 % · 27 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

52,367
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
25
fires
2,709
km²

How many times has Centla burned?

Centla has burned 25 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Carmen fire, 11 March 2026, with 6 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 52,367 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 41,769 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 8× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 1× 26
25
fires
9
years with fire
52,367
cumulative ha
41,769
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 Centla

  1. 6 ha Carmen fire, 11 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,937 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,871 ha Centla fire, July 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 340 ha Centro fire, July 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,555 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 3,108 ha Centla fire, 25 May 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,092 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,550 ha Centla fire, 22 May 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,541 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 4,430 ha Centla fire, May 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,402 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,457 ha Centla fire, 22 June 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,443 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 9,069 ha Centla fire, 18 June 2023 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 9,640 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 218 ha Centro fire, July 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 301 ha Nacajuca fire, April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,927 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 5,418 ha Centla fire, April 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,481 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,756 ha Centla fire, March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,748 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,000 ha Centla fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,771 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 2,732 ha Centla fire, 28 May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,714 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,886 ha Centla fire, 22 May 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,876 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 959 ha Jonuta fire, May 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,840 ha Centla fire, 30 April 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,831 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,669 ha Centla fire, 17 April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,660 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 131 ha Centro fire, 11 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,517 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 93 ha Centro fire, 3 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,769 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,682 ha Centla fire, 29 June 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,812 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 1,738 ha Centla fire, 1 June 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,728 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 3,500 ha Centla fire, May 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,482 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 1,709 ha Centla fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,699 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,905 ha Centla fire, May 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,895 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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