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Wildfires in Churumuco

Churumuco, Mexico, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 6,236 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Sat 31 Low 32° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Low 33° · 44 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Low 33° · 53 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Low 32° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 65 % · 35 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

6,236
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
6
fires
1,115
km²

How many times has Churumuco burned?

Churumuco has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Huetamo fire, 3 May 2026, with 614 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
6,236
cumulative ha
3 May 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 Churumuco

  1. 614 ha Huetamo fire, 3 May 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 1,827 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,385 ha La Huacana fire, May 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,358 ha Turicato fire, 7 May 2020 2.1% of the municipality · 6,591 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 107 ha Turicato fire, April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,552 ha La Huacana fire, May 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 2,599 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 218 ha Turicato fire, 10 April 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 8 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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