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Wildfires in Tlalchapa

Tlalchapa, Mexico, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,870 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 71% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 31 Low 31° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Low 32° · 44 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Low 32° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Low 31° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Low 31° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 58 % · 31 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

33,870
hectares burned
71 %
of its area
18
fires
474
km²

How many times has Tlalchapa burned?

Tlalchapa has burned 18 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Tlalchapa fire, March 2025, with 1,284 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,870 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,376 hectares, 37 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
18
fires
8
years with fire
33,870
cumulative ha
17,376
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 Tlalchapa

  1. 1,284 ha Tlalchapa fire, March 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 305 ha Cutzamala de Pinzón fire, 28 April 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 2,230 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 105 ha Cutzamala de Pinzón fire, 27 April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 6,910 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 1,545 ha Tlatlaya fire, June 2023 3.3% of the municipality · 1,980 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,826 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2023 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,088 ha Tlatlaya fire, April 2023 2.3% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 392 ha Tlapehuala fire, April 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 3,473 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 8,487 ha Tlatlaya fire, May 2020 18% of the municipality · 12,344 ha in total · 22 days
  9. 1,238 ha Tlalchapa fire, May 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 482 ha Tlapehuala fire, April 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 3,567 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 2,642 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2020 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 3,219 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,059 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,114 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 9,212 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2018 where it started 19% of the municipality · 10,623 ha in total · 19 days
  14. 21 ha Tlapehuala fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,833 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 3,038 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2016 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 3,255 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 133 ha Cutzamala de Pinzón fire, April 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 6,512 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 178 ha Tlatlaya fire, April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 834 ha Tlalchapa fire, March 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,168 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).

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