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Wildfires in Copalillo

Copalillo, Mexico, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,741 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 30° · 30 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 27° · 44 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 29° · 39 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 37 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 51 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 55 % · 26 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

15,741
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
13
fires
737
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Copalillo

  1. 1,340 ha Atenango del Río fire, February 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 1,811 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,808 ha Atenango del Río fire, 10 March 2024 2.4% of the municipality · 11,437 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 134 ha Atenango del Río fire, 8 March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,868 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,338 ha Huitzuco de los Figueroa fire, March 2022 3.2% of the municipality · 2,721 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,052 ha Cohetzala fire, March 2021 2.8% of the municipality · 7,699 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,203 ha Huitzuco de los Figueroa fire, April 2020 1.6% of the municipality · 4,323 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 281 ha Atenango del Río fire, 25 March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,434 ha Copalillo fire, March 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,620 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 516 ha Zitlala fire, March 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 5,109 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 2,035 ha Atenango del Río fire, 9 March 2019 2.8% of the municipality · 7,726 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 322 ha Ixcamilpa de Guerrero fire, April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 3,998 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 1,059 ha Copalillo fire, March 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,916 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,218 ha Atenango del Río fire, February 2016 1.6% of the municipality · 4,273 ha in total · 4 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).