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Wildfires in Zapopan

Zapopan, Mexico, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 23,257 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% 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 25° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 28° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 28° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 27° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 27° · 34 % · 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

23,257
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
15
fires
1,163
km²

How many times has Zapopan burned?

Zapopan has burned 15 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, April 2026, with 13 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,257 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,122 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
15
fires
8
years with fire
23,257
cumulative ha
21,122
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 Zapopan

  1. 13 ha San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,441 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 774 ha Tala fire, March 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 1,967 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,733 ha Zapopan fire, June 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,723 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,481 ha El Arenal fire, May 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 2,957 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,366 ha Tala fire, May 2021 2.0% of the municipality · 3,892 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,164 ha Zapopan fire, 21 April 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 31 ha Tlajomulco de Zúñiga fire, April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,098 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 6,526 ha Zapopan fire, 1 April 2021 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 6,499 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 32 ha San Cristóbal de la Barranca fire, April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,059 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 796 ha Tlajomulco de Zúñiga fire, April 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 2,644 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 384 ha Tala fire, April 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 4,322 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,534 ha Zapopan fire, June 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,525 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,995 ha Zapopan fire, 18 May 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,861 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,619 ha Zapopan fire, 2 May 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,612 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,808 ha Zapopan fire, March 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,797 ha in total · 3 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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