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Wildfires in Nuevo Urecho

Nuevo Urecho, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,497 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 14 Very low 21° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 21° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 22° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 22° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 22° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 22° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 23° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 22° · 70 % · 25 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 Nuevo Urecho: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,497
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
3
fires
333
km²

How many times has Nuevo Urecho burned?

Nuevo Urecho has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Nuevo Urecho fire, April 2026, with 1,928 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,497 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,071 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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3
fires
3
years with fire
6,497
cumulative ha
5,071
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 Nuevo Urecho

  1. 1,928 ha Nuevo Urecho fire, April 2026 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 2,111 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,645 ha Nuevo Urecho fire, May 2019 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 1,637 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,924 ha Nuevo Urecho fire, April 2016 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 3,435 ha in total · 9 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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