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Wildfires in Cintalapa

Cintalapa, Mexico, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 78,475 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% 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. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 56 % · 44 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 26° · 49 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 27° · 50 % · 45 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 62 % · 46 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 28° · 60 % · 41 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 47 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 59 % · 47 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

78,475
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
38
fires
2,454
km²

How many times has Cintalapa burned?

Cintalapa has burned 38 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Jiquipilas fire, 8 May 2026, with 958 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 78,475 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 46,013 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 10× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
38
fires
9
years with fire
78,475
cumulative ha
46,013
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 Cintalapa

  1. 958 ha Jiquipilas fire, 8 May 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 2,736 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 2,672 ha Cintalapa fire, May 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,710 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 43 ha San Miguel Chimalapa fire, May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,718 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,587 ha Cintalapa fire, 9 May 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,687 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 556 ha Santa María Chimalapa fire, 8 May 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 3,661 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,718 ha Cintalapa fire, 6 May 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,360 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 1,334 ha Santa María Chimalapa fire, 4 May 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 10,455 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 3,693 ha Cintalapa fire, 2 May 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,671 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 823 ha Jiquipilas fire, 8 April 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,610 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,731 ha Cintalapa fire, 28 March 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,724 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,880 ha Cintalapa fire, 26 March 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,870 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,111 ha Cintalapa fire, February 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,095 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,771 ha Cintalapa fire, 25 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,761 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 3,207 ha Cintalapa fire, 23 April 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,504 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 2,459 ha Cintalapa fire, 14 May 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,446 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 3,925 ha Cintalapa fire, 6 May 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,902 ha in total · 19 days
  17. 1,737 ha Cintalapa fire, 26 April 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,730 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 3,208 ha Cintalapa fire, 18 April 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,192 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 1,675 ha Cintalapa fire, March 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,864 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 2,159 ha Cintalapa fire, April 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 763 ha Jiquipilas fire, March 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,638 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 3,831 ha Cintalapa fire, April 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,811 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 2,992 ha Cintalapa fire, March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,976 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 834 ha Santa María Chimalapa fire, May 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 2,328 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 1,672 ha Cintalapa fire, 1 May 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,349 ha in total · 20 days
  26. 1,535 ha Cintalapa fire, 1 May 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,525 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 3,273 ha Cintalapa fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,252 ha in total · 24 days
  28. 3,445 ha Cintalapa fire, 4 April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,424 ha in total · 18 days
  29. 3,116 ha Cintalapa fire, 22 April 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,760 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 1,964 ha Cintalapa fire, 22 April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 19 days
  31. 1,262 ha Jiquipilas fire, April 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 3,314 ha Cintalapa fire, 15 April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,294 ha in total · 20 days
  33. 396 ha Cintalapa fire, March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,863 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 848 ha Santa María Chimalapa fire, February 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 1,795 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 1,628 ha Arriaga fire, April 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 1,956 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 4,014 ha Cintalapa fire, 25 April 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,990 ha in total · 9 days
  37. 879 ha Cintalapa fire, 22 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 12 days
  38. 1,460 ha Cintalapa fire, 22 April 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,409 ha in total · 17 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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