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Wildfires in Ignacio Zaragoza

Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexico, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 8,657 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 Moderate 21° · 29 % · 63 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 24 % · 44 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 20° · 36 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 21° · 19 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 22° · 17 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 21° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 18° · 43 % · 42 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 20° · 35 % · 36 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

8,657
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
5
fires
2,870
km²

How many times has Ignacio Zaragoza burned?

Ignacio Zaragoza has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2025. The most recent: Madera fire, April 2025, with 54 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,657 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,353 hectares, 2.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 4× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
2
years with fire
8,657
cumulative ha
8,353
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 Ignacio Zaragoza

  1. 54 ha Madera fire, April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 51,926 ha in total · 33 days
  2. 7 ha Casas Grandes fire, June 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 7,587 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,358 ha Ignacio Zaragoza fire, May 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,349 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 6,075 ha Madera fire, 17 May 2018 2.1% of the municipality · 29,734 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 163 ha Madera fire, 16 May 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 4,902 ha in total · 17 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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