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Wildfires in Gómez Palacio

Gómez Palacio, Mexico, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 1,601 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Low 25° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Moderate 26° · 19 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 15 High 25° · 24 % · 27 km/h
  5. Mon 16 High 24° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Moderate 24° · 43 % · 33 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Moderate 26° · 34 % · 22 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Gómez Palacio: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,601
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
1
fires
847
km²

How many times has Gómez Palacio burned?

Gómez Palacio has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Gómez Palacio fire, September 2026, with 1,601 hectares inside the municipality.

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  11. 1× 26
1
fires
1
years with fire
1,601
cumulative ha
13 Sept 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,500 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Mexico

Fires that entered Gómez Palacio

  1. 1,601 ha Gómez Palacio fire, September 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,594 ha in total · 11 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).

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