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MX · Mexico · Baja California · 1,922,523 inhabitants

Wildfires in Tijuana

Tijuana, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 19,126 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Fri 23 Very low 20° · 74 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 52 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 48 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 24° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 23° · 62 % · 29 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

19,126
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
10
fires
1,240
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Tijuana

  1. 3,101 ha Tijuana fire, January 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,101 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,351 ha Tijuana fire, 8 December 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,346 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,894 ha Tijuana fire, 8 December 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,889 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,695 ha Tijuana fire, 17 September 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,689 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,049 ha Tijuana fire, 16 September 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,181 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,319 ha Tijuana fire, June 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,312 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 177 ha Tecate fire, October 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 5,641 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 4,323 ha Tijuana fire, 7 December 2017 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 4,311 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,489 ha Tijuana fire, 6 December 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,520 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 729 ha Playas de Rosarito fire, October 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 4,247 ha in total · 5 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).