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Wildfires in Pénjamo

Pénjamo, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 4,317 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 52 % · 45 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 45 % · 40 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 48 % · 29 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 44 % · 37 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 24° · 47 % · 23 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

4,317
hectares burned
2.8 %
of its area
3
fires
1,569
km²

How many times has Pénjamo burned?

Pénjamo has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2025. The most recent: Pénjamo fire, December 2025, with 1,492 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
4,317
cumulative ha
17 Dec 2025
most recent

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 Pénjamo

  1. 1,492 ha Pénjamo fire, December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,538 ha in total · 25 days
  2. 2,633 ha Pénjamo fire, May 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 192 ha Cuerámaro fire, April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,125 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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