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Wildfires in Madero

Madero, Mexico, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,482 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.3% 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. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 60 % · 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

7,482
hectares burned
7.3 %
of its area
6
fires
1,025
km²

How many times has Madero burned?

Madero has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Nocupétaro fire, April 2025, with 1,285 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,482 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,647 hectares, 5.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
5
years with fire
7,482
cumulative ha
5,647
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 Madero

  1. 1,285 ha Nocupétaro fire, April 2025 1.2% of the municipality · 3,559 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,318 ha Madero fire, June 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,579 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 51 ha Tacámbaro fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,154 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,761 ha Nocupétaro fire, May 2019 1.7% of the municipality · 2,278 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,511 ha Madero fire, April 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,554 ha Madero fire, April 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,546 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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