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Wildfires in Puebla

Puebla, Mexico: 26 fires with a page have entered 20 of its 217 municipalities since 2016, burning 57,373 hectares inside the region. The largest was Atenango del Río in 9 March 2024, with 6,002 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: 57,373ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 1.7%; 34,420 km²
fires: 26; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 20; of 217
Largest fire: 6,002ha; Atenango del Río · 9 March 2024
Inhabitants: 2,312,374; 24.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Sat 24 Very low 17° · 31 % · 34 km/h
Sun 25 Very low 14° · 54 % · 31 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 17° · 41 % · 36 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 17° · 50 % · 31 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 19° · 38 % · 45 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 18° · 43 % · 34 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 18° · 53 % · 23 km/h

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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

Cohetzala 10,549 ha · 44 %
Tlachichuca 7,801 ha · 18 %
Ixcamilpa de Guerrero 6,896 ha · 22 %
Tulcingo 4,165 ha · 15 %
Chilchotla 3,542 ha · 24 %
Tianguismanalco 3,159 ha · 24 %
Lafragua 3,083 ha · 17 %
Tetela de Ocampo 2,931 ha · 8.9 %
Zacatlán 2,372 ha · 4.8 %
Zautla 2,220 ha · 8.3 %
Tepeyahualco 1,947 ha · 4.3 %
Guadalupe Victoria 1,810 ha · 7.9 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

5×Ixcamilpa de Guerrero6,896 ha
4×Cohetzala10,549 ha
4×Tlachichuca7,801 ha
4×Jolalpan1,558 ha
3×Tulcingo4,165 ha
3×Chilchotla3,542 ha
3×Lafragua3,083 ha
2×Tianguismanalco3,159 ha

Largest recorded fires

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	0	Zapotitlán Lagunas 0 ha
2025	1	4,100	Chilchotla 4,100 ha
2024	4	9,691	Atenango del Río 6,002 ha
2023	2	3,884	Zacatlán 2,372 ha
2022	1	554	Atenango del Río 554 ha
2021	4	7,391	Cohetzala 4,014 ha
2020	3	9,538	Tlachichuca 4,699 ha
2019	6	12,414	Chilchotla 3,931 ha
2018	1	1,605	Chila 1,605 ha
2017	1	2,087	Tianguismanalco 2,087 ha
2016	2	6,109	Ixcamilpa de Guerrero 3,688 ha

All fires in Puebla · 26

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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