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Wildfires in Coatzacoalcos

Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 45 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 79 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 78 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 78 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 71 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 72 % · 71 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 27° · 79 % · 65 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 28° · 79 % · 44 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

45
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
2
fires
314
km²

How many times has Coatzacoalcos burned?

Coatzacoalcos has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Cosoleacaque fire, May 2025, with 38 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39 hectares, 0.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
45
cumulative ha
39
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 Coatzacoalcos

  1. 38 ha Cosoleacaque fire, May 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,186 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 8 ha Cosoleacaque fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,643 ha in total · 2 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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