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Wildfires in Escárcega

Escárcega, Mexico, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 28,581 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 31° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 31° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 31° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 49 % · 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

28,581
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
16
fires
4,809
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Escárcega

  1. 10 ha Champotón fire, 16 May 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,005 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 35 ha Carmen fire, 15 May 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,626 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 3,329 ha Escárcega fire, May 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,313 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,224 ha Champotón fire, 1 May 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,774 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 174 ha Champotón fire, 25 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,115 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 2,305 ha Escárcega fire, April 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,293 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 550 ha Carmen fire, 28 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,603 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,541 ha Escárcega fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,990 ha Escárcega fire, 4 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,984 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 3,227 ha Escárcega fire, 24 April 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,211 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,038 ha Escárcega fire, 21 April 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 2,299 ha Escárcega fire, 20 April 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,282 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 3,917 ha Escárcega fire, 18 April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,894 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 1,519 ha Escárcega fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,284 ha Escárcega fire, 9 May 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 24 days
  16. 2,140 ha Escárcega fire, 4 May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,128 ha in total · 10 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).