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Wildfires in Oaxaca

Oaxaca, Mexico: 225 fires with a page have entered 146 of its 568 municipalities since 2016, burning 624,186 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Miguel Chimalapa in March 2024, with 19,988 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
624,186ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.7%
93,084 km²
fires
225
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
146
of 568
Largest fire
19,988ha
San Miguel Chimalapa · March 2024
Inhabitants
488,504
1,277.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 63 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 44 % · 34 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 56 % · 31 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. San Miguel Chimalapa 83,954 ha · 71 %
  2. Santa María Chimalapa 62,612 ha · 14 %
  3. San Carlos Yautepec 50,866 ha · 22 %
  4. San Juan Mazatlán 32,759 ha · 20 %
  5. San Pedro Tapanatepec 31,853 ha · 32 %
  6. Santo Domingo Zanatepec 24,048 ha · 37 %
  7. Santiago Niltepec 16,600 ha · 30 %
  8. Santiago Juxtlahuaca 15,953 ha · 20 %
  9. San Juan Bautista Atatlahuca 15,781 ha · 37 %
  10. Villa Sola de Vega 12,893 ha · 13 %
  11. Zapotitlán Lagunas 12,010 ha · 39 %
  12. Santa María Zaniza 11,401 ha · 72 %

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
20262049,423 Santo Domingo Zanatepec 7,114 ha
2025819,526 Villa Sola de Vega 4,317 ha
202440152,830 San Miguel Chimalapa 19,988 ha
20231536,821 San Carlos Yautepec 6,519 ha
20222249,110 Santa María Zaniza 4,089 ha
20211845,276 San Miguel Chimalapa 6,105 ha
2020611,963 Santiago Juxtlahuaca 2,752 ha
201941125,964 San Miguel Chimalapa 16,818 ha
2018814,820 Santiago Llano Grande 5,162 ha
20173374,292 San Miguel Chimalapa 5,727 ha
20161444,160 San Carlos Yautepec 8,891 ha

All fires in Oaxaca · 225

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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