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Wildfires in Ixtlán del Río

Ixtlán del Río, Mexico, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 31,659 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 64% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 41 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low 29° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Low 27° · 49 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 27° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Low 27° · 34 % · 34 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

31,659
hectares burned
64 %
of its area
15
fires
495
km²

How many times has Ixtlán del Río burned?

Ixtlán del Río has burned 15 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Hostotipaquillo fire, May 2026, with 4,505 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,659 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,582 hectares, 40 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
15
fires
8
years with fire
31,659
cumulative ha
19,582
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 Ixtlán del Río

  1. 4,505 ha Hostotipaquillo fire, May 2026 9.1% of the municipality · 17,831 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 1,073 ha Jala fire, April 2025 2.2% of the municipality · 2,343 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,698 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, June 2024 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 0 ha Jala fire, 15 May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,772 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 753 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, May 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 9,486 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 427 ha Jala fire, 4 May 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 1,732 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 4,510 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, April 2023 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 5,798 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,631 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,623 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 361 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, 5 March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,662 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 9 ha Hostotipaquillo fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,555 ha in total · 24 days
  11. 4,415 ha Amatlán de Cañas fire, May 2021 8.9% of the municipality · 12,445 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 3,004 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, May 2021 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 6,521 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 48 ha Amatlán de Cañas fire, June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 8,497 ha Hostotipaquillo fire, March 2017 17% of the municipality · 25,730 ha in total · 27 days
  15. 728 ha Jala fire, April 2016 1.5% of the municipality · 1,602 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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