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Wildfires in Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 3,987 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Wed 11 Low 31° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 32° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Low 31° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 30° · 47 % · 29 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Low 30° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Moderate 30° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Low 30° · 53 % · 28 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 Puerto Vallarta: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,987
hectares burned
5.8 %
of its area
2
fires
684
km²

How many times has Puerto Vallarta burned?

Puerto Vallarta has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Puerto Vallarta fire, May 2022, with 1,902 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,987
cumulative ha
11 May 2022
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 Puerto Vallarta

  1. 1,902 ha Puerto Vallarta fire, May 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,971 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,084 ha Puerto Vallarta fire, May 2021 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,268 ha in total · 7 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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