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Wildfires in Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas, Mexico: 28 fires with a page have entered 20 of its 43 municipalities since 2016, burning 102,534 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gómez Farías in March 2022, with 12,073 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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
102,534ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
78,026 km²
fires
28
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
20
of 43
Largest fire
12,073ha
Gómez Farías · March 2022
Inhabitants
3,165,489
32.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Moderate 32° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 34° · 41 % · 40 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 33° · 45 % · 37 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 31° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 51 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 28° · 66 % · 44 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 25° · 70 % · 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. Gómez Farías 16,191 ha · 22 %
  2. Casas 13,678 ha · 4.5 %
  3. Jiménez 11,572 ha · 6.9 %
  4. Victoria 349,688 inhabitants 7,472 ha · 5.1 %
  5. Nuevo Morelos 3,381 inhabitants 6,651 ha · 22 %
  6. Bustamante 6,407 ha · 4.4 %
  7. Jaumave 5,862 ha · 2.2 %
  8. Tula 5,245 ha · 1.7 %
  9. González 106,144 inhabitants 5,219 ha · 1.6 %
  10. Miquihuana 4,653 ha · 5.2 %
  11. Llera 3,629 ha · 1.4 %
  12. Güémez 3,404 ha · 2.8 %

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
2026514,378 Jiménez 4,867 ha
2025519,474 Casas 7,219 ha
202425,693 Victoria 4,073 ha
202312,308 Nuevo Morelos 2,308 ha
2022635,052 Gómez Farías 12,073 ha
2021518,087 Bustamante 9,229 ha
201911,747 Llera 1,747 ha
201811,671 Aldama 1,671 ha
201724,124 Jiménez 2,405 ha

All fires in Tamaulipas · 28

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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