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Wildfires in La Huerta

La Huerta, Mexico, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 31,109 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 74 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 75 % · 27 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

31,109
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
16
fires
2,022
km²

How many times has La Huerta burned?

La Huerta has burned 16 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: La Huerta fire, 23 May 2026, with 2,253 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,109 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 20,901 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
8
years with fire
31,109
cumulative ha
20,901
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 La Huerta

  1. 2,253 ha La Huerta fire, 23 May 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,521 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,027 ha La Huerta fire, 19 May 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 182 ha Casimiro Castillo fire, 14 May 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,372 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,883 ha La Huerta fire, May 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,305 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,211 ha La Huerta fire, May 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,588 ha La Huerta fire, May 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,176 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 473 ha Cuautitlán de García Barragán fire, 15 May 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,060 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,190 ha La Huerta fire, May 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,321 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 409 ha Villa Purificación fire, 9 April 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,570 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 1,023 ha Casimiro Castillo fire, May 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 4,813 ha in total · 26 days
  11. 1,527 ha La Huerta fire, April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,519 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 3,565 ha La Huerta fire, 20 May 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,222 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 2,220 ha La Huerta fire, 7 May 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,336 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 3,227 ha Cuautitlán de García Barragán fire, 23 April 2016 1.6% of the municipality · 5,569 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 1,614 ha La Huerta fire, 21 April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,605 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 4,716 ha La Huerta fire, 20 April 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 5,866 ha in total · 25 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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