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Wildfires in Quechultenango

Quechultenango, Mexico, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 23,010 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% 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. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 54 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 46 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 53 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 60 % · 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

23,010
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
16
fires
850
km²

How many times has Quechultenango burned?

Quechultenango has burned 16 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Acatepec fire, April 2026, with 4,611 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,010 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,652 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
16
fires
8
years with fire
23,010
cumulative ha
15,652
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 Quechultenango

  1. 4,611 ha Acatepec fire, April 2026 5.4% of the municipality · 5,383 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 906 ha Acatepec fire, June 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 2,615 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 6 ha Ayutla de los Libres fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,085 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 159 ha Mochitlán fire, May 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,933 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,509 ha Quechultenango fire, February 2021 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 3,002 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,408 ha Quechultenango fire, 19 May 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,781 ha Quechultenango fire, 7 May 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,773 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,662 ha Quechultenango fire, April 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,654 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,722 ha Quechultenango fire, March 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,742 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 569 ha Acatepec fire, May 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 3,137 ha Quechultenango fire, May 2019 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,324 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 505 ha Mochitlán fire, 6 May 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,554 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 1,750 ha Quechultenango fire, March 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,250 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 1,703 ha Quechultenango fire, May 2018 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,724 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 15 ha Ayutla de los Libres fire, April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,548 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 567 ha Quechultenango fire, April 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 8 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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