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Wildfires in Cuautepec

Cuautepec, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 11,901 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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 Very low 30° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 76 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 67 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 69 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 70 % · 25 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

11,901
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
8
fires
316
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cuautepec

  1. 326 ha Cuautepec fire, April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,752 ha Copala fire, 23 March 2026 5.6% of the municipality · 2,208 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,517 ha Copala fire, 13 March 2026 4.8% of the municipality · 1,807 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,248 ha Florencio Villarreal fire, 7 March 2026 7.1% of the municipality · 5,114 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 1,482 ha Cuautepec fire, April 2023 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 693 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, April 2020 2.2% of the municipality · 4,134 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 1,773 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, April 2019 5.6% of the municipality · 19,351 ha in total · 31 days
  8. 2,110 ha Cuautepec fire, March 2018 where it started 6.7% 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).