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Wildfires in Jala

Jala, Mexico, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,191 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Fri 23 Moderate 31° · 24 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 30 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 30° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 52 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 78 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 59 % · 23 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

19,191
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
12
fires
506
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Jala

  1. 329 ha Santa María del Oro fire, May 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 1,922 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,283 ha Jala fire, April 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,343 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,785 ha Jala fire, 15 May 2023 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 2,772 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,312 ha Jala fire, 7 May 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,732 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,320 ha Ixtlán del Río fire, April 2023 2.6% of the municipality · 5,798 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,728 ha Jala fire, April 2022 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,720 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,095 ha Jala fire, March 2022 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 2,086 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 138 ha Santa María del Oro fire, March 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 1,982 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 2,955 ha Jala fire, May 2020 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 2,941 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,248 ha Jala fire, May 2017 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 2,237 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 2,115 ha Jala fire, April 2017 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 882 ha Jala fire, April 2016 where it started 1.7% 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).