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Wildfires in Tonalá

Tonalá, Mexico, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 28,510 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Wed 11 High 36° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  2. Thu 12 High 36° · 38 % · 35 km/h
  3. Fri 13 High 35° · 41 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sat 14 High 34° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 34° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Moderate 37° · 36 % · 28 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 Tonalá: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

28,510
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
15
fires
1,866
km²

How many times has Tonalá burned?

Tonalá has burned 15 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Tonalá fire, February 2026, with 2,909 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,510 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 20,161 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
15
fires
9
years with fire
28,510
cumulative ha
20,161
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 Tonalá

  1. 2,909 ha Tonalá fire, February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,892 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 4,371 ha Tonalá fire, April 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,368 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2,642 ha Tonalá fire, January 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,627 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 936 ha Tonalá fire, February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,542 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,139 ha Tonalá fire, April 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,126 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 1,392 ha Villa Corzo fire, 7 March 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 1,641 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 2,323 ha Tonalá fire, 15 February 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 3,342 ha Tonalá fire, 13 February 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,321 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 39 ha Villa Corzo fire, 25 March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 1,877 ha Tonalá fire, 7 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,866 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,623 ha Tonalá fire, 7 March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,614 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,308 ha Tonalá fire, January 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,766 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 271 ha Pijijiapan fire, January 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 1,909 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 1,864 ha Tonalá fire, March 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,854 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 1,475 ha Tonalá fire, February 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,589 ha in total · 2 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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