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Wildfires in Santiago Niltepec

Santiago Niltepec, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 16,600 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).

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. Thu 12 High 39° · 28 % · 40 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very high 36° · 35 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sat 14 High 37° · 35 % · 31 km/h
  4. Sun 15 High 37° · 40 % · 31 km/h
  5. Mon 16 High 38° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very high 35° · 41 % · 44 km/h
  7. Wed 18 High 36° · 35 % · 44 km/h
  8. Thu 19 High 38° · 32 % · 39 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 Santiago Niltepec: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

16,600
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
9
fires
551
km²

How many times has Santiago Niltepec burned?

Santiago Niltepec has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: San Miguel Chimalapa fire, 21 February 2026, with 3,367 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,600 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,604 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
9
fires
5
years with fire
16,600
cumulative ha
9,604
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 Santiago Niltepec

  1. 3,367 ha San Miguel Chimalapa fire, 21 February 2026 6.1% of the municipality · 4,463 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 932 ha San Miguel Chimalapa fire, 8 February 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 2,584 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 2,768 ha Santiago Niltepec fire, 30 January 2026 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 2,751 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,303 ha Santiago Niltepec fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,102 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,151 ha San Miguel Chimalapa fire, March 2024 3.9% of the municipality · 19,875 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 1,818 ha San Miguel Chimalapa fire, April 2022 3.3% of the municipality · 3,092 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 1,649 ha Santiago Niltepec fire, February 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,794 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 485 ha San Miguel Chimalapa fire, 10 April 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 16,724 ha in total · 30 days
  9. 2,126 ha San Miguel Chimalapa fire, March 2017 3.9% of the municipality · 5,694 ha in total · 17 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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