Wildfires in Guanajuato
Guanajuato, Mexico: 12 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 46 municipalities since 2016, burning 34,943 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Felipe in May 2019, with 12,073 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 34,943ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.1%
- 30,768 km²
- fires
- 12
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 10
- of 46
- Largest fire
- 12,073ha
- San Felipe · May 2019
- Inhabitants
- 3,763,652
- 9.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 11 Low 22° · 51 % · 24 km/h
- Thu 12 Very low 20° · 59 % · 20 km/h
- Fri 13 Very low 19° · 58 % · 38 km/h
- Sat 14 Very low 20° · 38 % · 38 km/h
- Sun 15 Low 22° · 35 % · 36 km/h
- Mon 16 Low 22° · 36 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 17 Low 22° · 45 % · 33 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- San Felipe 17,049 ha · 5.6 %
- Pénjamo 4,317 ha · 2.8 %
- Cuerámaro 3,222 ha · 12 %
- Guanajuato 194,500 inhabitants 2,651 ha · 2.6 %
- Manuel Doblado 1,864 ha · 2.3 %
- San Luis de la Paz 1,495 ha · 0.7 %
- Ocampo 1,354 ha · 1.3 %
- Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional 148,173 inhabitants 1,230 ha · 0.7 %
- Jerécuaro 1,137 ha · 1.3 %
- San Diego de la Unión 624 ha · 0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,500 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×San Felipe17,049 ha
- 3×Pénjamo4,317 ha
- 2×Cuerámaro3,222 ha
- 2×Manuel Doblado1,864 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 12,073 haSan FelipeMay 2019 · 14 days
- 3,900 haGuanajuatoMarch 2024 · 7 days
- 3,353 haSan FelipeMarch 2017 · 3 days
- 3,140 haCuerámaroApril 2019 · 5 days
- 2,908 haPénjamoMay 2019 · 5 days
- 2,228 haSan FelipeApril 2017 · 4 days
- 1,495 haSanta María del RíoMay 2024 · 14 days
- 1,492 haPénjamoDecember 2025 · 25 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,354 | Ojuelos de Jalisco 1,354 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 2,629 | Pénjamo 1,492 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 5,394 | Guanajuato 3,900 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 690 | Jesús María 690 ha |
| 2019 | 4 | 19,295 | San Felipe 12,073 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 5,581 | San Felipe 3,353 ha |
All fires in Guanajuato · 12
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,354 haOjuelos de JaliscoMarch 2026 · 5 days
- 1,492 haPénjamoDecember 2025 · 25 days
- 1,137 haJerécuaroApril 2025 · 4 days
- 1,495 haSanta María del RíoMay 2024 · 14 days
- 3,900 haGuanajuatoMarch 2024 · 7 days
- 690 haJesús MaríaMay 2023 · 4 days
- 2,908 haPénjamoMay 2019 · 5 days
- 12,073 haSan FelipeMay 2019 · 14 days
- 3,140 haCuerámaroApril 2019 · 5 days
- 1,175 haJesús MaríaApril 2019 · 8 days
- 2,228 haSan FelipeApril 2017 · 4 days
- 3,353 haSan FelipeMarch 2017 · 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/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).
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