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Wildfires in Tlacoachistlahuaca

Tlacoachistlahuaca, Mexico, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 19,439 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. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 28° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 27° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 29° · 48 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 29° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 29° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 28° · 48 % · 30 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 Tlacoachistlahuaca: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

19,439
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
18
fires
807
km²

How many times has Tlacoachistlahuaca burned?

Tlacoachistlahuaca has burned 18 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Metlatónoc fire, April 2026, with 57 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,439 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,911 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 6× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
18
fires
6
years with fire
19,439
cumulative ha
14,911
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 Tlacoachistlahuaca

  1. 57 ha Metlatónoc fire, April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,953 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 190 ha Xochistlahuaca fire, April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 3,266 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 30 ha Metlatónoc fire, March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,138 ha Tlacoachistlahuaca fire, May 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 2,137 ha Metlatónoc fire, 2 May 2022 2.6% of the municipality · 3,936 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 1,764 ha Ometepec fire, April 2022 2.2% of the municipality · 2,505 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 501 ha Xochistlahuaca fire, April 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 1,749 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 30 ha Cochoapa el Grande fire, 1 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,364 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 11 ha Xochistlahuaca fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,047 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 1,796 ha Tlacoachistlahuaca fire, 6 May 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 2,655 ha Metlatónoc fire, May 2019 3.3% of the municipality · 7,064 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 653 ha Tlacoachistlahuaca fire, 5 May 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,627 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 680 ha Tlacoachistlahuaca fire, April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,519 ha in total · 23 days
  14. 2,105 ha Xochistlahuaca fire, April 2019 2.6% of the municipality · 2,746 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 0 ha Putla Villa de Guerrero fire, April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,816 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 80 ha Metlatónoc fire, April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,853 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 2,654 ha Tlacoachistlahuaca fire, March 2017 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,640 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 2,958 ha Metlatónoc fire, March 2017 3.7% of the municipality · 3,670 ha in total · 7 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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