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Wildfires in Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Mexico, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 57,335 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10.0% 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. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 77 % · 34 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 65 % · 45 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 28 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 33 % · 29 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 38 % · 36 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

57,335
hectares burned
10.0 %
of its area
20
fires
5,740
km²

How many times has Valparaíso burned?

Valparaíso has burned 20 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Valparaíso fire, May 2024, with 9,943 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 57,335 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 50,254 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
20
fires
7
years with fire
57,335
cumulative ha
50,254
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 Valparaíso

  1. 9,943 ha Valparaíso fire, May 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 9,885 ha in total · 30 days
  2. 7,291 ha Valparaíso fire, June 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,245 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 9,958 ha Valparaíso fire, May 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 19,923 ha in total · 39 days
  4. 66 ha Mezquital fire, 5 May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,298 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 2,045 ha Valparaíso fire, 12 May 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,031 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,783 ha Valparaíso fire, 11 May 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,767 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 43 ha Mezquital fire, 30 April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,862 ha Valparaíso fire, April 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,854 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 4,318 ha Valparaíso fire, May 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,326 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 2,426 ha Valparaíso fire, April 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 9 ha Mezquitic fire, 17 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,111 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 3,060 ha Valparaíso fire, 15 May 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,042 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 191 ha Mezquital fire, 7 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,536 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 125 ha Mezquitic fire, 5 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,075 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,749 ha Valparaíso fire, 2 May 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,740 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 673 ha Del Nayar fire, 1 June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 4,738 ha in total · 22 days
  17. 2,083 ha Valparaíso fire, May 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 239 ha Mezquital fire, 9 May 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,619 ha in total · 20 days
  19. 4,923 ha Valparaíso fire, April 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,893 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 3,547 ha Valparaíso fire, May 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,527 ha in total · 20 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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