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Wildfires in La Yesca

La Yesca, Mexico, has had 52 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 182,163 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 42% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 76 % · 18 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 28° · 35 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 26 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 30° · 33 % · 31 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

182,163
hectares burned
42 %
of its area
52
fires
4,336
km²

How many times has La Yesca burned?

La Yesca has burned 52 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: La Yesca fire, 28 April 2026, with 5,280 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 10× 16
  2. 10× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
52
fires
10
years with fire
182,163
cumulative ha
28 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Yesca

  1. 5,280 ha La Yesca fire, 28 April 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,256 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 13,006 ha La Yesca fire, 24 April 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 12,965 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 4,518 ha La Yesca fire, 14 May 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,487 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 9,543 ha La Yesca fire, 5 May 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 9,509 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 5,315 ha San Martín de Bolaños fire, May 2024 1.2% of the municipality · 12,965 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 1,854 ha La Yesca fire, May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,846 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 320 ha Mezquitic fire, April 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,357 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 6,118 ha Del Nayar fire, 28 April 2024 1.4% of the municipality · 13,582 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 5,909 ha La Yesca fire, 27 April 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,359 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 5,358 ha La Yesca fire, 21 April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,382 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,868 ha La Yesca fire, 10 June 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,857 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 4,443 ha La Yesca fire, 5 June 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,425 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 2,845 ha La Yesca fire, May 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,834 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 5,486 ha Tequila fire, May 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 9,892 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 2,442 ha La Yesca fire, 31 May 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,464 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 2,168 ha La Yesca fire, 26 May 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,155 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 851 ha San Martín de Bolaños fire, May 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 5,952 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 99 ha Bolaños fire, 12 May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 3,614 ha La Yesca fire, April 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,601 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 1,277 ha La Yesca fire, 28 May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,991 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,075 ha La Yesca fire, 27 May 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 2,937 ha Del Nayar fire, 23 May 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 4,332 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 6,554 ha La Yesca fire, 10 May 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 6,534 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 2,054 ha La Yesca fire, June 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 3,651 ha La Yesca fire, 24 May 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,632 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 4,332 ha La Yesca fire, 18 May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,721 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 9,399 ha La Yesca fire, 17 May 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 9,409 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 2,087 ha La Yesca fire, April 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,660 ha La Yesca fire, June 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,730 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 4,989 ha La Yesca fire, May 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,965 ha in total · 14 days
  31. 325 ha Del Nayar fire, 22 May 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 4,098 ha in total · 15 days
  32. 4,058 ha Del Nayar fire, 15 May 2018 0.9% of the municipality · 6,013 ha in total · 17 days
  33. 2,045 ha La Yesca fire, 17 June 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,030 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 3,869 ha La Yesca fire, 10 June 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,851 ha in total · 11 days
  35. 3,554 ha La Yesca fire, 3 June 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,303 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 77 ha Del Nayar fire, 28 May 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,752 ha in total · 18 days
  37. 2,458 ha Tequila fire, 24 May 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 7,550 ha in total · 13 days
  38. 11,590 ha La Yesca fire, 22 May 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 11,521 ha in total · 18 days
  39. 4,069 ha La Yesca fire, 16 May 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 12,474 ha in total · 22 days
  40. 1,905 ha La Yesca fire, 21 April 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,893 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,954 ha La Yesca fire, 13 April 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,941 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 1,615 ha La Yesca fire, 1 April 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,604 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 736 ha Bolaños fire, June 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,233 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 1,548 ha La Yesca fire, 1 June 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,539 ha in total · 11 days
  45. 1,465 ha La Yesca fire, 1 June 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,500 ha in total · 7 days
  46. 1,784 ha La Yesca fire, 27 May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,773 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 6,464 ha La Yesca fire, 27 May 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 6,437 ha in total · 16 days
  48. 977 ha La Yesca fire, 19 May 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,389 ha in total · 16 days
  49. 1,639 ha La Yesca fire, 15 May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,198 ha in total · 12 days
  50. 3,582 ha La Yesca fire, 15 May 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,795 ha in total · 22 days
  51. 2,351 ha La Yesca fire, 15 May 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,335 ha in total · 9 days
  52. 2,047 ha La Yesca fire, April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 8 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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