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Wildfires in Zitlala

Zitlala, Mexico, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 6,431 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% 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. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 56 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 59 % · 30 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

6,431
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
2
fires
307
km²

How many times has Zitlala burned?

Zitlala has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2025. The most recent: Zitlala fire, April 2025, with 1,810 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,431 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,994 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
6,431
cumulative ha
4,994
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 Zitlala

  1. 1,810 ha Zitlala fire, April 2025 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 1,800 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 4,621 ha Zitlala fire, March 2019 where it started 15% of the municipality · 5,109 ha in total · 14 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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