Wildfires in Morelos
Morelos, Mexico: 6 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 33 municipalities since 2016, burning 7,092 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tepoztlán in April 2025, with 2,646 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).
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
- 7,092ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.4%
- 4,906 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 33
- Largest fire
- 2,646ha
- Tepoztlán · April 2025
- Inhabitants
- 524,738
- 13.5 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 26° · 49 % · 17 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 26° · 41 % · 13 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 25° · 48 % · 16 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 26° · 44 % · 13 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 28° · 36 % · 32 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 28° · 47 % · 33 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 27° · 62 % · 20 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Tlalnepantla 2,401 ha · 22 %
- Cuernavaca 122,263 inhabitants 2,055 ha · 10 %
- Tepoztlán 1,791 ha · 7.3 %
- Miacatlán 809 ha · 3.7 %
- Puente de Ixtla 36 ha · 0.1 %
- Temixco 1 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Tlalnepantla2,401 ha
- 2×Cuernavaca2,055 ha
- 2×Miacatlán809 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,646 haTepoztlánApril 2025 · 6 days
- 2,033 haCuernavacaMarch 2017 · 3 days
- 1,547 haTlalnepantlaMay 2019 · 9 days
- 619 haOcuilan11 May 2019 · 9 days of 2,919 ha in total
- 213 haMiacatlánMarch 2024 · 13 days of 1,788 ha in total
- 36 haBuenavista de CuéllarApril 2021 · 7 days of 2,473 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 2,646 | Tepoztlán 2,646 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 213 | Miacatlán 213 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 36 | Buenavista de Cuéllar 36 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 2,165 | Tlalnepantla 1,547 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 2,033 | Cuernavaca 2,033 ha |
All fires in Morelos · 6
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).