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Wildfires in Metlatónoc

Metlatónoc, Mexico, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 24,791 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% 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 27° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 58 % · 28 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

24,791
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
18
fires
605
km²

How many times has Metlatónoc burned?

Metlatónoc has burned 18 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Metlatónoc fire, April 2026, with 1,825 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 24,791 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,853 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 5× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
18
fires
6
years with fire
24,791
cumulative ha
15,853
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 Metlatónoc

  1. 1,825 ha Metlatónoc fire, April 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,953 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,108 ha Metlatónoc fire, May 2024 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,246 ha Iliatenco fire, May 2024 3.7% of the municipality · 5,400 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 1,622 ha Igualapa fire, May 2024 2.7% of the municipality · 5,371 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 1,482 ha Metlatónoc fire, April 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,882 ha Metlatónoc fire, March 2024 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 22 ha Tlacoachistlahuaca fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 2,397 ha Metlatónoc fire, 1 May 2022 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,027 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,632 ha Metlatónoc fire, 28 April 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,936 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 2,120 ha Cochoapa el Grande fire, 1 April 2021 3.5% of the municipality · 2,364 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 265 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, 6 May 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,588 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 2,586 ha Metlatónoc fire, April 2019 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 7,064 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 298 ha Cochoapa el Grande fire, April 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 22 days
  14. 113 ha Iliatenco fire, April 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 1,305 ha Metlatónoc fire, April 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,853 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 1,752 ha Malinaltepec fire, March 2017 2.9% of the municipality · 2,706 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 416 ha San Luis Acatlán fire, 6 March 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 720 ha Metlatónoc fire, March 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,670 ha in total · 7 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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