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Wildfires in Tecate

Tecate, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 34,786 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% 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. Thu 22 Very low 16° · 54 % · 55 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 16° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Low 21° · 26 % · 40 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 24° · 18 % · 46 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 12 % · 36 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 17 % · 25 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 14 % · 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

34,786
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
10
fires
2,695
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Tecate

  1. 1,535 ha Tecate fire, June 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 3,375 ha Tecate fire, January 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,364 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,876 ha Tecate fire, September 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,869 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 4,774 ha Tecate fire, July 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,767 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,662 ha Tecate fire, July 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,660 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,884 ha Tecate fire, September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,879 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 7,014 ha Tecate fire, June 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,995 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 5,484 ha Tecate fire, October 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,641 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 7,170 ha Tecate fire, July 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 7,160 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 13 ha Tecate fire, June 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,798 ha in total · 4 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).