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Wildfires in Ocuilan

Ocuilan, Mexico, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,987 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% 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 19° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 58 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 66 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 67 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 62 % · 30 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

7,987
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
5
fires
388
km²

How many times has Ocuilan burned?

Ocuilan has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Joquicingo fire, April 2025, with 2,382 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,987 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,127 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
7,987
cumulative ha
7,127
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 Ocuilan

  1. 2,382 ha Joquicingo fire, April 2025 6.1% of the municipality · 3,169 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 1,585 ha Miacatlán fire, March 2024 4.1% of the municipality · 1,788 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,275 ha Ocuilan fire, 11 May 2019 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 2,919 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,660 ha Ocuilan fire, 8 May 2019 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 2,630 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 85 ha Cuernavaca fire, March 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 3 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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