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Wildfires in Guazapares

Guazapares, Mexico, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,123 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.4% 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. Mon 26 Low 24° · 41 % · 36 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 24° · 38 % · 33 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 24° · 42 % · 38 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 61 % · 46 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 50 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 52 % · 37 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

17,123
hectares burned
9.4 %
of its area
11
fires
1,831
km²

How many times has Guazapares burned?

Guazapares has burned 11 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Guazapares fire, April 2025, with 1,865 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,123 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,875 hectares, 8.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
11
fires
7
years with fire
17,123
cumulative ha
15,875
distinct ha

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 Guazapares

  1. 1,865 ha Guazapares fire, April 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 945 ha Uruachi fire, June 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 1,737 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 675 ha Urique fire, 13 May 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 2,237 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,644 ha Guazapares fire, May 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,637 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,396 ha Guazapares fire, 24 April 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,392 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,775 ha Guazapares fire, 5 April 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,774 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,987 ha Guazapares fire, May 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,072 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,026 ha Guazapares fire, 7 June 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,505 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 315 ha Urique fire, June 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 5,975 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 1,826 ha Guazapares fire, 1 June 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,488 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 1,667 ha Guazapares fire, June 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,867 ha in total · 9 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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