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Wildfires in Mochitlán

Mochitlán, Mexico, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 17,949 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% 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. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 77 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 52 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 51 % · 32 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

17,949
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
12
fires
516
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mochitlán

  1. 662 ha Juan R. Escudero fire, February 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 2,936 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 1,535 ha Mochitlán fire, May 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,527 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,785 ha Mochitlán fire, May 2022 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,933 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,522 ha Mochitlán fire, April 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,810 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,522 ha Mochitlán fire, April 2021 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,916 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 10 ha Chilpancingo de los Bravo fire, 20 May 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,673 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,786 ha Mochitlán fire, May 2020 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 930 ha Mochitlán fire, 12 May 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,379 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 2,063 ha Mochitlán fire, 7 May 2019 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 2,554 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 204 ha Quechultenango fire, May 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 3,324 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 2,961 ha Chilpancingo de los Bravo fire, 5 May 2019 5.7% of the municipality · 3,540 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 970 ha Juan R. Escudero fire, April 2017 1.9% of the municipality · 4,595 ha in total · 18 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).