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Wildfires in Zacapu

Zacapu, Mexico, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,971 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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 24 Very low 20° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 87 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 58 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 53 % · 46 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 46 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 49 % · 26 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

7,971
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
8
fires
457
km²

How many times has Zacapu burned?

Zacapu has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Zacapu fire, April 2025, with 2,032 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,971 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,659 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
5
years with fire
7,971
cumulative ha
7,659
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 Zacapu

  1. 2,032 ha Zacapu fire, April 2025 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 2,081 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,545 ha Zacapu fire, March 2024 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,537 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 379 ha Purépero fire, April 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 1,706 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 683 ha Purépero fire, May 2019 1.5% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 627 ha Purépero fire, 29 April 2016 1.4% of the municipality · 1,687 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 173 ha Purépero fire, 11 April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,201 ha Zacapu fire, March 2016 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 2,389 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 331 ha Cherán fire, March 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 1,529 ha in total · 16 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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