Wildfires in Colima
Colima, Mexico: 4 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 9 municipalities since 2016, burning 12,058 hectares inside the region. The largest was Villa de Álvarez in May 2024, with 4,370 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
- 12,058ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.1%
- 5,802 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 4,370ha
- Villa de Álvarez · May 2024
- Inhabitants
- 402,394
- 30.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 29° · 78 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 28° · 83 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 28° · 80 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 28° · 81 % · 34 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 28° · 80 % · 33 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 28° · 80 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 27° · 70 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Coquimatlán 20,837 inhabitants 4,809 ha · 9.1 %
- Manzanillo 2,467 ha · 1.8 %
- Villa de Álvarez 2,461 ha · 8.5 %
- Minatitlán 10,231 inhabitants 2,315 ha · 5.5 %
- Armería 27,626 inhabitants 7 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Coquimatlán4,809 ha
- 3×Manzanillo2,467 ha
- 2×Minatitlán2,315 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 4,370 haVilla de ÁlvarezMay 2024 · 19 days
- 4,029 haCoquimatlánApril 2016 · 11 days
- 2,125 haMinatitlánMay 2022 · 9 days
- 1,533 haManzanilloMay 2024 · 5 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 5,904 | Villa de Álvarez 4,370 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 2,125 | Minatitlán 2,125 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 4,029 | Coquimatlán 4,029 ha |
All fires in Colima · 4
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).