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Wildfires in Temascaltepec

Temascaltepec, Mexico, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,591 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Fri 23 Very low 21° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 71 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 68 % · 28 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

8,591
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
7
fires
571
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Temascaltepec

  1. 688 ha San Simón de Guerrero fire, April 2025 1.2% of the municipality · 1,842 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,142 ha Temascaltepec fire, May 2024 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,136 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 0 ha Tejupilco fire, 2 May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,213 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,146 ha Temascaltepec fire, April 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,692 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,072 ha Temascaltepec fire, April 2019 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 3,428 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1 ha San Simón de Guerrero fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,446 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,543 ha Temascaltepec fire, April 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,535 ha in total · 6 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).