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Wildfires in Hopelchén

Hopelchén, Mexico, has had 40 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 120,486 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 56 % · 14 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Low 33° · 42 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Low 32° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 56 % · 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

120,486
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
40
fires
7,819
km²

How many times has Hopelchén burned?

Hopelchén has burned 40 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Hopelchén fire, April 2025, with 1,518 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 120,486 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 85,485 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 12× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 8× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
40
fires
9
years with fire
120,486
cumulative ha
85,485
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 Hopelchén

  1. 1,518 ha Hopelchén fire, April 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,511 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 2,275 ha Hopelchén fire, March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,264 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,075 ha Hopelchén fire, 13 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 2,363 ha Hopelchén fire, 7 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,356 ha in total · 24 days
  5. 2,554 ha Hopelchén fire, 1 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,544 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 1,517 ha Hopelchén fire, 1 May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,523 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 1,731 ha Hopelchén fire, 14 April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,722 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 2,579 ha Hopelchén fire, 14 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,572 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 3,226 ha Hopelchén fire, 8 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,211 ha in total · 33 days
  10. 4,030 ha Hopelchén fire, 5 April 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,011 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,304 ha Hopelchén fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,879 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,617 ha Hopelchén fire, 1 April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 14,106 ha Hopelchén fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 14,034 ha in total · 31 days
  14. 4,603 ha Hopelchén fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,579 ha in total · 31 days
  15. 7,870 ha Hopelchén fire, February 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,833 ha in total · 37 days
  16. 3,360 ha Hopelchén fire, April 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,933 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 1,582 ha Hopelchén fire, April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,575 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 2,010 ha Hopelchén fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,002 ha in total · 21 days
  19. 2,423 ha Hopelchén fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 2,833 ha Hopelchén fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,821 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 1,830 ha Hopelchén fire, 30 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,823 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 5,622 ha Hopelchén fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,606 ha in total · 40 days
  23. 1,724 ha Hopelchén fire, 24 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,715 ha in total · 25 days
  24. 6,827 ha Hopelchén fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,801 ha in total · 35 days
  25. 2,001 ha Hopelchén fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,993 ha in total · 28 days
  26. 7,403 ha Hopelchén fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,371 ha in total · 41 days
  27. 1,912 ha Hopelchén fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,902 ha in total · 19 days
  28. 4,125 ha Hopelchén fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,104 ha in total · 32 days
  29. 1,530 ha Hopelchén fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 16 days
  30. 4,021 ha Bacalar fire, June 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 6,235 ha in total · 20 days
  31. 1,903 ha Hopelchén fire, April 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 18 days
  32. 1,548 ha Hopelchén fire, 28 March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 1,593 ha Hopelchén fire, 21 March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,588 ha in total · 16 days
  34. 1,843 ha Hopelchén fire, 17 March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,835 ha in total · 13 days
  35. 1,591 ha Hopelchén fire, 16 March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 18 days
  36. 4,098 ha Hopelchén fire, 12 March 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,082 ha in total · 24 days
  37. 1,575 ha Hopelchén fire, 11 March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,568 ha in total · 19 days
  38. 434 ha Bacalar fire, 22 February 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,743 ha in total · 10 days
  39. 1,777 ha Hopelchén fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,766 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 1,554 ha Hopelchén fire, 10 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,541 ha in total · 7 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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