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Wildfires in Palizada

Palizada, Mexico, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 84,366 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 24 Very low 30° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 45 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 45 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 32° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 58 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 66 % · 26 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

84,366
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
37
fires
2,200
km²

How many times has Palizada burned?

Palizada has burned 37 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Palizada fire, 17 May 2026, with 1,644 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 84,366 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 55,089 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 8× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 7× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
37
fires
8
years with fire
84,366
cumulative ha
55,089
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 Palizada

  1. 1,644 ha Palizada fire, 17 May 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 361 ha Palizada fire, 6 May 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,777 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 288 ha Carmen fire, 4 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,548 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 3,730 ha Palizada fire, May 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,706 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 634 ha Jonuta fire, 19 June 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,879 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,577 ha Palizada fire, 15 June 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 5,896 ha Palizada fire, 14 June 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,860 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,716 ha Palizada fire, 10 June 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,708 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,725 ha Palizada fire, 7 June 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,716 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 6,025 ha Palizada fire, 30 May 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,995 ha in total · 28 days
  11. 1,907 ha Palizada fire, May 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 1,592 ha Palizada fire, 21 May 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,584 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,847 ha Palizada fire, 1 May 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,920 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 5,075 ha Palizada fire, February 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 5,042 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,341 ha Palizada fire, 26 May 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,327 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,659 ha Palizada fire, 4 May 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 209 ha Carmen fire, 28 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,880 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 2,517 ha Palizada fire, 19 April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,501 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,203 ha Palizada fire, 12 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,594 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 458 ha Carmen fire, 3 April 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,054 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 1,528 ha Palizada fire, 19 May 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,652 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 2,166 ha Palizada fire, 18 May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,155 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 3,568 ha Palizada fire, 16 May 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 3,075 ha Palizada fire, 22 April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,060 ha in total · 26 days
  25. 4,015 ha Palizada fire, 17 April 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,988 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 1,633 ha Palizada fire, 5 April 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,622 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 3,052 ha Palizada fire, 4 April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,033 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 1,838 ha Palizada fire, 3 April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,829 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 1,950 ha Palizada fire, May 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,939 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 1,664 ha Palizada fire, April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,656 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 1,082 ha Carmen fire, April 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 1,564 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 40 ha Jonuta fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 1,509 ha Palizada fire, June 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,648 ha Palizada fire, 18 May 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,640 ha in total · 17 days
  35. 3,561 ha Palizada fire, 10 May 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,539 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 7,938 ha Palizada fire, 5 May 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 7,887 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 695 ha Palizada fire, 4 May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,838 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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