Skip to content
worldfires
MX · Mexico

Wildfires in Tabasco

Tabasco, Mexico: 47 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 17 municipalities since 2016, burning 97,238 hectares inside the region. The largest was Centla in 19 June 2023, with 9,691 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
97,238ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.0%
24,353 km²
fires
47
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 17
Largest fire
9,691ha
Centla · 19 June 2023
Inhabitants
2,004,539
48.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 53 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 67 % · 23 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Centla 107,731 inhabitants 52,367 ha · 19 %
  2. Jonuta 17,569 ha · 11 %
  3. Centro 683,607 inhabitants 8,397 ha · 4.9 %
  4. Macuspana 158,601 inhabitants 5,459 ha · 2.2 %
  5. Balancán 2,607 inhabitants 4,495 ha · 1.2 %
  6. Cárdenas 243,229 inhabitants 3,271 ha · 1.6 %
  7. Huimanguillo 190,885 inhabitants 2,480 ha · 0.7 %
  8. Jalapa 1,563 ha · 2.6 %
  9. Nacajuca 150,300 inhabitants 1,132 ha · 2.1 %
  10. Jalpa de Méndez 505 ha · 1.4 %

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
202653,734 Jonuta 1,596 ha
2025510,322 Centla 3,108 ha
202426,910 Centla 4,430 ha
2023517,124 Centla 9,691 ha
202223,472 Nacajuca 1,938 ha
202147,578 Centla 5,513 ha
202023,344 Carmen 1,808 ha
20191328,023 Cárdenas 3,271 ha
201849,035 Centla 3,500 ha
201722,928 Jonuta 1,478 ha
201634,769 Centla 1,905 ha

All fires in Tabasco · 47

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).