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Wildfires in Tequila

Tequila, Mexico, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 49,876 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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 13 Moderate 26° · 32 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 27° · 25 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 28° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 30° · 24 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 17 High 29° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 26° · 35 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Moderate 28° · 27 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 27° · 43 % · 25 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 Tequila: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

49,876
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
23
fires
1,701
km²

How many times has Tequila burned?

Tequila has burned 23 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, April 2026, with 145 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 49,876 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 37,358 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
23
fires
10
years with fire
49,876
cumulative ha
37,358
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 Tequila

  1. 145 ha San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,441 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,614 ha Tequila fire, May 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,460 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,419 ha Tequila fire, April 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,496 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 212 ha San Martín de Bolaños fire, May 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 12,965 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 2,102 ha Tequila fire, May 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 4,447 ha Tequila fire, May 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 9,892 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 1,785 ha Tequila fire, 27 May 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,990 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,105 ha San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, May 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 3,987 ha Tequila fire, 23 May 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,010 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 109 ha San Martín de Bolaños fire, May 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 5,952 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 284 ha Hostotipaquillo fire, May 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,997 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 972 ha San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, May 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,932 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 122 ha San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,059 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 2,032 ha Tequila fire, April 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 4,789 ha La Yesca fire, 3 June 2017 2.8% of the municipality · 8,303 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 5,127 ha Tequila fire, 24 May 2017 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 7,550 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 2,020 ha Tequila fire, 22 May 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,060 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 2,166 ha Tequila fire, 14 May 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,155 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 9,582 ha San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, April 2017 5.6% of the municipality · 22,698 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 3,929 ha Ahualulco de Mercado fire, 29 April 2017 2.3% of the municipality · 14,551 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 345 ha Hostotipaquillo fire, May 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,760 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 567 ha La Yesca fire, 15 May 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,198 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 16 ha San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,030 ha in total · 12 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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