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Wildfires in Chiapa de Corzo

Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 13,436 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 13 Moderate 30° · 46 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Low 30° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Low 32° · 37 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 33° · 32 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 30° · 48 % · 49 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 30° · 46 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 31° · 45 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 31° · 44 % · 49 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Chiapa de Corzo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

13,436
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
10
fires
835
km²

How many times has Chiapa de Corzo burned?

Chiapa de Corzo has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Chiapa de Corzo fire, February 2026, with 1,436 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,436 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,126 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
5
years with fire
13,436
cumulative ha
12,126
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 Chiapa de Corzo

  1. 1,436 ha Chiapa de Corzo fire, February 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,641 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 162 ha Acala fire, April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,918 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,994 ha Chiapa de Corzo fire, April 2021 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,985 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,019 ha Chiapa de Corzo fire, 23 April 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,505 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 1,231 ha Chiapa de Corzo fire, 21 April 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,512 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 9 ha Ixtapa fire, 17 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,078 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 840 ha Acala fire, 5 April 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 1,994 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 4,832 ha Acala fire, 4 April 2019 5.8% of the municipality · 8,179 ha in total · 32 days
  9. 85 ha San Lucas fire, March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 5,008 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,827 ha Chiapa de Corzo fire, January 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,702 ha in total · 1 day

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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