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Wildfires in Huetamo

Huetamo, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 21,735 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 46 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 32° · 43 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 33° · 43 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 33° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 32° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 32° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 56 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

21,735
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
10
fires
2,068
km²

How many times has Huetamo burned?

Huetamo has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Huetamo fire, 4 May 2026, with 1,533 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,735 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,778 hectares, 6.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
21,735
cumulative ha
13,778
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 Huetamo

  1. 1,533 ha Huetamo fire, 4 May 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,741 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,222 ha Huetamo fire, 3 May 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,827 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 995 ha Huetamo fire, May 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,552 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 12 ha Zirándaro fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 4,536 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,410 ha Huetamo fire, March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,637 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 7,674 ha Huetamo fire, 16 April 2021 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 8,734 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 3,380 ha Huetamo fire, 12 April 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,363 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,655 ha Huetamo fire, April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,646 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,987 ha Huetamo fire, 11 April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,547 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,868 ha Huetamo fire, 1 April 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,858 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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