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Wildfires in Huamuxtitlán

Huamuxtitlán, Mexico, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 8,282 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 24 Low 24° · 47 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 27° · 42 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 28° · 39 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 28° · 38 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 28° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 29° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 29° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 30° · 37 % · 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

8,282
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
5
fires
276
km²

How many times has Huamuxtitlán burned?

Huamuxtitlán has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Zapotitlán Lagunas fire, April 2025, with 1,522 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,282 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,146 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
5
years with fire
8,282
cumulative ha
5,146
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 Huamuxtitlán

  1. 1,522 ha Zapotitlán Lagunas fire, April 2025 5.5% of the municipality · 3,847 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 696 ha Huamuxtitlán fire, March 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,544 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 1,554 ha Xochihuehuetlán fire, March 2022 5.6% of the municipality · 2,197 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 3,915 ha Zapotitlán Lagunas fire, 6 April 2021 14% of the municipality · 4,791 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 596 ha Zapotitlán Lagunas fire, March 2018 2.2% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 20 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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