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Wildfires in Mascota

Mascota, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 15,344 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.3% 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. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 66 % · 40 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 41 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 55 % · 29 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

15,344
hectares burned
8.3 %
of its area
9
fires
1,853
km²

How many times has Mascota burned?

Mascota has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mascota fire, May 2026, with 1,850 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,344 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,660 hectares, 7.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
9
fires
6
years with fire
15,344
cumulative ha
13,660
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 Mascota

  1. 1,850 ha Mascota fire, May 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,195 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,669 ha Mascota fire, May 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,744 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 124 ha San Sebastián del Oeste fire, 7 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 4,352 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,824 ha Mascota fire, May 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,809 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,079 ha Talpa de Allende fire, 21 May 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,696 ha Mascota fire, April 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,752 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,850 ha Mascota fire, April 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,886 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,312 ha Mascota fire, May 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,130 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,938 ha Mascota fire, April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,928 ha in total · 6 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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