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Wildfires in Compostela

Compostela, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 11,185 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% 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. Fri 23 Low 32° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 70 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 92 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 75 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 73 % · 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

11,185
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
8
fires
1,891
km²

How many times has Compostela burned?

Compostela has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Compostela fire, May 2026, with 1,582 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,185 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,836 hectares, 5.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
11,185
cumulative ha
9,836
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 Compostela

  1. 1,582 ha Compostela fire, May 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,574 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 94 ha San Pedro Lagunillas fire, 23 May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,416 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,039 ha Compostela fire, 21 May 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,030 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 2,179 ha Compostela fire, 16 May 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,170 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 12 ha San Sebastián del Oeste fire, 6 May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,702 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,858 ha Compostela fire, May 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,941 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,663 ha Compostela fire, May 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,655 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,757 ha Xalisco fire, 30 May 2017 0.9% of the municipality · 4,550 ha in total · 11 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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