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Wildfires in Mezquitic

Mezquitic, Mexico, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 65,264 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Sun 8 Moderate 22° · 27 % · 39 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Moderate 22° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Moderate 22° · 38 % · 29 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Moderate 21° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 17° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 20° · 38 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 18° · 66 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 20° · 51 % · 37 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Mezquitic: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

65,264
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
31
fires
3,380
km²

How many times has Mezquitic burned?

Mezquitic has burned 31 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Mezquitic fire, May 2025, with 2,473 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 65,264 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 53,348 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 10× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 8× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
31
fires
9
years with fire
65,264
cumulative ha
53,348
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 Mezquitic

  1. 2,473 ha Mezquitic fire, May 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,730 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,819 ha Mezquitic fire, April 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,357 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 6,391 ha Valparaíso fire, May 2023 1.9% of the municipality · 19,923 ha in total · 39 days
  4. 1,519 ha Mezquitic fire, 12 May 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,512 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,914 ha Mezquitic fire, 10 May 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,078 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,301 ha Mezquitic fire, 6 May 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,840 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 2,005 ha Mezquitic fire, 1 May 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 0 ha Bolaños fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,978 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,008 ha Mezquitic fire, 24 April 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,017 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,922 ha Mezquitic fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,910 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 2,098 ha Bolaños fire, 18 May 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 2,984 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,506 ha Mezquitic fire, May 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,564 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,886 ha Mezquitic fire, 23 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,958 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 198 ha Bolaños fire, March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,662 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,270 ha Mezquitic fire, 21 March 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,065 ha Mezquitic fire, May 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,055 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 2,794 ha Mezquitic fire, 17 May 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,111 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 1,537 ha Bolaños fire, 7 May 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 3,967 ha Mezquitic fire, 5 May 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,075 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 483 ha Del Nayar fire, April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 10,927 ha in total · 25 days
  21. 0 ha La Yesca fire, 17 June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,030 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 455 ha Del Nayar fire, 10 June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,670 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 2,374 ha Mezquitic fire, 5 June 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,365 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 1,631 ha Mezquitic fire, 4 June 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,626 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 2,325 ha Del Nayar fire, 1 June 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 4,738 ha in total · 22 days
  26. 2,097 ha Mezquitic fire, 31 May 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 6,379 ha Bolaños fire, 17 May 2017 1.9% of the municipality · 15,826 ha in total · 29 days
  28. 675 ha Del Nayar fire, 14 May 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 4,501 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 832 ha Bolaños fire, 13 May 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 3,601 ha Mezquitic fire, 1 May 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,437 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 1,736 ha Mezquitic fire, May 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,729 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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