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Wildfires in Jonuta

Jonuta, Mexico, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,569 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 Very low 30° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 45 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 54 % · 21 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

17,569
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
18
fires
1,653
km²

How many times has Jonuta burned?

Jonuta has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Carmen fire, June 2026, with 65 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,569 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,759 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
18
fires
7
years with fire
17,569
cumulative ha
13,759
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 Jonuta

  1. 65 ha Carmen fire, June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,658 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,596 ha Jonuta fire, May 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 163 ha Carmen fire, 11 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 4,937 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 395 ha Carmen fire, 4 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,548 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,404 ha Jonuta fire, 19 June 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,879 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 623 ha Centla fire, 18 June 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 9,640 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,009 ha Jonuta fire, 13 June 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,000 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 67 ha Carmen fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,865 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 96 ha Centla fire, April 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 5,481 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 242 ha Jonuta fire, March 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,576 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,808 ha Carmen fire, 3 April 2020 1.1% of the municipality · 3,054 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 786 ha Centla fire, August 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 2,771 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 1,189 ha Macuspana fire, May 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 2,292 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 133 ha Palizada fire, 20 May 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,652 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,149 ha Jonuta fire, May 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,213 ha Jonuta fire, April 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,203 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,478 ha Jonuta fire, March 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,155 ha Palizada fire, 5 May 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 1,838 ha in total · 4 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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