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Wildfires in Zinacantán

Zinacantán, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,101 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 52% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 47 % · 29 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 72 % · 33 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

10,101
hectares burned
52 %
of its area
10
fires
196
km²

How many times has Zinacantán burned?

Zinacantán has burned 10 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Acala fire, April 2024, with 84 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,101 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,206 hectares, 37 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
8
years with fire
10,101
cumulative ha
7,206
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 Zinacantán

  1. 84 ha Acala fire, April 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 1,918 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,314 ha Ixtapa fire, April 2023 6.7% of the municipality · 1,740 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 925 ha San Lucas fire, March 2022 4.7% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,178 ha Zinacantán fire, March 2020 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,637 ha Zinacantán fire, April 2019 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 1,628 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 101 ha Ixtapa fire, 10 April 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 990 ha Acala fire, March 2019 5.1% of the municipality · 8,616 ha in total · 44 days
  8. 1,723 ha San Lucas fire, March 2018 8.8% of the municipality · 5,008 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,251 ha Zinacantán fire, March 2017 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 2,140 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 898 ha Zinacantán fire, March 2016 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 1,594 ha in total · 11 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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