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Wildfires in Chiapas

Chiapas, Mexico: 276 fires with a page have entered 47 of its 118 municipalities since 2016, burning 746,399 hectares inside the region. The largest was Jiquipilas in April 2019, with 18,695 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
746,399ha
Since 2016
Of the region
10%
73,172 km²
fires
276
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
47
of 118
Largest fire
18,695ha
Jiquipilas · April 2019
Inhabitants
1,780,309
419.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 23° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 23° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 41 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 52 % · 25 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Villa Corzo 137,026 ha · 49 %
  2. La Concordia 130,297 ha · 50 %
  3. Cintalapa 78,475 ha · 32 %
  4. Venustiano Carranza 62,586 ha · 46 %
  5. Jiquipilas 60,182 ha · 46 %
  6. Villaflores 56,129 ha · 29 %
  7. Arriaga 31,801 ha · 39 %
  8. Tonalá 28,510 ha · 15 %
  9. Chanal 22,631 ha · 55 %
  10. Ocosingo 234,661 inhabitants 19,913 ha · 2.1 %
  11. Chicomuselo 15,930 ha · 16 %
  12. Chiapa de Corzo 13,436 ha · 16 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20262150,880 Villa Corzo 4,217 ha
2025611,316 Villaflores 2,377 ha
202439125,927 La Concordia 12,313 ha
20232774,262 La Concordia 7,537 ha
20223477,861 La Concordia 4,502 ha
20212253,956 Jiquipilas 4,925 ha
20201746,485 La Concordia 8,450 ha
201944140,512 Jiquipilas 18,695 ha
20181639,390 La Concordia 5,883 ha
20172461,352 La Concordia 7,055 ha
20162664,458 Jiquipilas 9,287 ha

All fires in Chiapas · 276

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).