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Wildfires in Cosalá

Cosalá, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 7,755 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Moderate 33° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 35° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 30 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

7,755
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
10
fires
2,181
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cosalá

  1. 222 ha Cosalá fire, May 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,828 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,895 ha Cosalá fire, April 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,917 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,842 ha San Ignacio fire, March 2025 1.8% of the municipality · 49,719 ha in total · 65 days
  4. 685 ha San Ignacio fire, December 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 37 ha San Ignacio fire, June 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,514 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 3 ha Tamazula fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,595 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 6 ha Tamazula fire, 22 May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,040 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 749 ha Tamazula fire, 20 May 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 3,561 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 157 ha Tamazula fire, 19 May 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 15,732 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 158 ha Tamazula fire, 11 May 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 9,739 ha in total · 15 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).