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Wildfires in Guerrero

Guerrero, Mexico: 633 fires with a page have entered 69 of its 83 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,391,708 hectares inside the region. The largest was Coahuayutla de José María Izazaga in April 2020, with 45,789 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
2,391,708ha
Since 2016
Of the region
37%
63,910 km²
fires
633
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
69
of 83
Largest fire
45,789ha
Coahuayutla de José María Izazaga · April 2020
Inhabitants
1,217,093
1,965.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 49 % · 48 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 59 % · 29 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 68 % · 29 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 56 % · 29 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. Coyuca de Catalán 414,932 ha · 1.2×
  2. Ajuchitlán del Progreso 235,811 ha · 1.2×
  3. Zirándaro 205,108 ha · 95 %
  4. Chilpancingo de los Bravo 283,354 inhabitants 189,240 ha · 86 %
  5. San Miguel Totolapan 170,853 ha · 72 %
  6. Coahuayutla de José María Izazaga 119,251 ha · 45 %
  7. Zihuatanejo de Azueta 75,940 ha · 51 %
  8. Técpan de Galeana 75,223 ha · 26 %
  9. San Luis Acatlán 74,929 ha · 68 %
  10. Coyuca de Benítez 62,333 ha · 34 %
  11. Acapulco de Juárez 779,566 inhabitants 48,641 ha · 28 %
  12. Petatlán 42,356 ha · 21 %

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
20263192,787 Zirándaro 16,048 ha
20251542,279 Huitzuco de los Figueroa 5,860 ha
202465277,201 Coyuca de Catalán 27,398 ha
202345135,011 Ajuchitlán del Progreso 15,618 ha
202247177,489 Coahuayutla de José María Izazaga 29,505 ha
202159245,797 Coyuca de Catalán 26,294 ha
2020101380,600 Coahuayutla de José María Izazaga 45,789 ha
2019106474,150 Ajuchitlán del Progreso 35,168 ha
201852152,518 Chilpancingo de los Bravo 11,382 ha
201778319,008 Coyuca de Catalán 43,316 ha
20163494,867 Zirándaro 7,768 ha

All fires in Guerrero · 633

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).

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