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Wildfires in Tlatlaya

Tlatlaya, Mexico, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,858 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 59 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 54 % · 14 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 69 % · 19 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

11,858
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
11
fires
793
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Tlatlaya

  1. 1,043 ha Tlalchapa fire, March 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 446 ha Tlatlaya fire, June 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,980 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 66 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,059 ha Tlatlaya fire, April 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 3,925 ha Tlatlaya fire, May 2020 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 12,344 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 313 ha Tlalchapa fire, May 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,543 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 594 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 3,219 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,468 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2018 1.8% of the municipality · 10,623 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 235 ha Tlalchapa fire, April 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 3,255 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 1,362 ha Tlatlaya fire, April 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,346 ha Tlalchapa fire, March 2016 1.7% 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).