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Wildfires in Tecolotlán

Tecolotlán, Mexico, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,000 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Fri 23 Low 26° · 32 % · 42 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 27° · 34 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 23° · 45 % · 52 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 52 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 87 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 59 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 52 % · 21 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

8,000
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
6
fires
769
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Tecolotlán

  1. 1,601 ha Tecolotlán fire, March 2025 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,593 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,359 ha Tecolotlán fire, April 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,508 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 574 ha San Martín Hidalgo fire, April 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 19 ha Atemajac de Brizuela fire, April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,842 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,387 ha Tecolotlán fire, May 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 4,051 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 2,059 ha Tecolotlán fire, April 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,904 ha in total · 9 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).