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Wildfires in Jiquipilas

Jiquipilas, Mexico, has had 26 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 60,182 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 46% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 6 Moderate 31° · 39 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Moderate 29° · 44 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Low 29° · 57 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Low 30° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Low 30° · 54 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 62 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 55 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Jiquipilas: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

60,182
hectares burned
46 %
of its area
26
fires
1,308
km²

How many times has Jiquipilas burned?

Jiquipilas has burned 26 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Jiquipilas fire, 16 May 2026, with 1,554 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 60,182 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,224 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
26
fires
9
years with fire
60,182
cumulative ha
31,224
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 Jiquipilas

  1. 1,554 ha Jiquipilas fire, 16 May 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,546 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,791 ha Jiquipilas fire, 8 May 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,736 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2 ha Arriaga fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,143 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 338 ha Villaflores fire, 16 May 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,851 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 1,051 ha Jiquipilas fire, May 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,822 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,607 ha Jiquipilas fire, 8 April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,717 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 795 ha Jiquipilas fire, 8 April 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,610 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 2,318 ha Jiquipilas fire, 3 April 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 4,393 ha Jiquipilas fire, May 2023 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 4,370 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 1,375 ha Jiquipilas fire, 27 April 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,777 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,600 ha Jiquipilas fire, 14 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,592 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 105 ha Villaflores fire, 18 May 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,031 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,550 ha Jiquipilas fire, April 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 198 ha Cintalapa fire, March 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,864 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,722 ha Jiquipilas fire, March 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,713 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 3,553 ha Jiquipilas fire, April 2021 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 4,899 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 168 ha Arriaga fire, April 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,896 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,888 ha Jiquipilas fire, March 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,638 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 17,080 ha Ocozocoautla de Espinosa fire, April 2019 13% of the municipality · 18,364 ha in total · 25 days
  20. 1,796 ha Jiquipilas fire, April 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,920 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 2,074 ha Jiquipilas fire, March 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,062 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 857 ha Jiquipilas fire, April 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 1,826 ha Jiquipilas fire, March 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,823 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 1,499 ha Jiquipilas fire, 27 April 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,120 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 8,083 ha Jiquipilas fire, 25 April 2016 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 9,097 ha in total · 20 days
  26. 962 ha Cintalapa fire, 22 April 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 2,409 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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