Wildfires in Copala
Copala, Mexico, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 3,399 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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- Fri 23 Very low 29° · 76 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 29° · 68 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 29° · 68 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 29° · 67 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 29° · 75 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 29° · 71 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 29° · 74 % · 31 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
- 3,399
- hectares burned
- 11 %
- of its area
- 6
- fires
- 299
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Copala
- 1,713 ha Cuautepec fire, April 2026 5.7% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 8 days
- 468 ha Copala fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,208 ha in total · 8 days
- 300 ha Copala fire, 13 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,807 ha in total · 6 days
- 481 ha Cuautepec fire, April 2023 1.6% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 2 days
- 33 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 19,351 ha in total · 31 days
- 405 ha Cuautepec fire, March 2018 1.4% of the municipality · 2,501 ha in total · 6 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).