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Wildfires in Jalisco

Jalisco, Mexico: 296 fires with a page have entered 83 of its 125 municipalities since 2016, burning 960,925 hectares inside the region. The largest was Villa Purificación in April 2016, with 30,673 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
960,925ha
Since 2016
Of the region
12%
78,867 km²
fires
296
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
83
of 125
Largest fire
30,673ha
Villa Purificación · April 2016
Inhabitants
5,567,392
172.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 47 % · 29 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 27° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 29° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 28° · 29 % · 34 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. Cuautitlán de García Barragán 82,974 ha · 59 %
  2. Talpa de Allende 76,613 ha · 38 %
  3. Mezquitic 65,264 ha · 19 %
  4. Tomatlán 64,339 ha · 21 %
  5. Villa Purificación 59,545 ha · 32 %
  6. Cabo Corrientes 50,757 ha · 33 %
  7. Tequila 49,876 ha · 29 %
  8. Bolaños 39,790 ha · 46 %
  9. La Huerta 31,109 ha · 15 %
  10. Tecalitlán 25,851 ha · 20 %
  11. San Cristóbal de la Barranca 25,323 ha · 48 %
  12. Zapopan 1,476,491 inhabitants 23,257 ha · 20 %

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
20261654,099 Hostotipaquillo 13,412 ha
20251848,520 Tomatlán 7,762 ha
20242155,593 San Martín de Bolaños 7,660 ha
202348160,823 Talpa de Allende 12,335 ha
20222362,058 Tecalitlán 8,597 ha
20213077,591 Pihuamo 6,945 ha
20201228,719 Tepalcatepec 4,598 ha
20192695,964 San Gabriel 18,971 ha
20181229,050 Tala 4,343 ha
201754232,262 San Cristóbal de la Barranca 18,431 ha
201636116,245 Villa Purificación 30,673 ha

All fires in Jalisco · 296

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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