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Wildfires in Tecoanapa

Tecoanapa, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 16,687 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 28 Very low 29° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 67 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 68 % · 27 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

16,687
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
9
fires
701
km²

How many times has Tecoanapa burned?

Tecoanapa has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Tecoanapa fire, March 2026, with 2,304 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,687 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,396 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
9
fires
6
years with fire
16,687
cumulative ha
10,396
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 Tecoanapa

  1. 2,304 ha Tecoanapa fire, March 2026 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,462 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 1,526 ha Tecoanapa fire, April 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,517 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 100 ha Quechultenango fire, 19 May 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,857 ha Tecoanapa fire, May 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 1,329 ha Tecoanapa fire, April 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,916 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 3,860 ha Tecoanapa fire, 4 May 2019 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 3,998 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 1,580 ha Tecoanapa fire, 2 May 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,833 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 1 ha Quechultenango fire, May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,724 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 4,132 ha Tecoanapa fire, April 2017 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 4,694 ha in total · 14 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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