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Wildfires in Monte Escobedo

Monte Escobedo, Mexico, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 15,943 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.9% 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. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 58 % · 33 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 42 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 25° · 36 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 25° · 45 % · 34 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

15,943
hectares burned
9.9 %
of its area
5
fires
1,608
km²

How many times has Monte Escobedo burned?

Monte Escobedo has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Monte Escobedo fire, 21 April 2025, with 3,623 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,943 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,136 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
15,943
cumulative ha
14,136
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 Monte Escobedo

  1. 3,623 ha Monte Escobedo fire, 21 April 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,679 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 4,602 ha Monte Escobedo fire, 17 April 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,576 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 105 ha Mezquitic fire, 1 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 5,051 ha Tepetongo fire, April 2023 3.1% of the municipality · 8,413 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 2,563 ha Monte Escobedo fire, June 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,549 ha in total · 5 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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