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Wildfires in Nocupétaro

Nocupétaro, Mexico, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,146 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Tue 27 Low 31° · 41 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 32° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 32° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 32° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 33° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 33° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 33° · 39 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 33° · 43 % · 39 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

7,146
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
4
fires
548
km²

How many times has Nocupétaro burned?

Nocupétaro has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Nocupétaro fire, April 2025, with 2,292 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,146 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,933 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4
fires
4
years with fire
7,146
cumulative ha
5,933
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 Nocupétaro

  1. 2,292 ha Nocupétaro fire, April 2025 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 3,559 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,670 ha Nocupétaro fire, May 2024 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 2,655 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 527 ha Nocupétaro fire, May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,278 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,657 ha Nocupétaro fire, April 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 10 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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