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Wildfires in Yucatán

Yucatán, Mexico: 18 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 105 municipalities since 2016, burning 36,032 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tizimín in April 2017, with 3,303 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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
36,032ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.9%
39,679 km²
fires
18
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 105
Largest fire
3,303ha
Tizimín · April 2017
Inhabitants
743,311
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. Sat 24 Low 31° · 38 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 30° · 47 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 33° · 37 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 32° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 34° · 46 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 61 % · 21 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. Tekax 25,751 inhabitants 11,146 ha · 4.0 %
  2. Tizimín 2 inhabitants 10,510 ha · 2.7 %
  3. Dzilam de Bravo 2,455 inhabitants 5,185 ha · 12 %
  4. Río Lagartos 2,493 inhabitants 2,145 ha · 6.3 %
  5. Halachó 10,183 inhabitants 1,790 ha · 3.0 %
  6. Chichimilá 6,540 inhabitants 1,573 ha · 3.3 %
  7. Oxkutzcab 26,175 inhabitants 908 ha · 1.0 %
  8. Acanceh 11,917 inhabitants 815 ha · 5.9 %
  9. San Felipe 2,069 inhabitants 687 ha · 1.5 %
  10. Maxcanú 446 ha · 0.5 %
  11. Seyé 9,141 inhabitants 356 ha · 2.0 %
  12. Kanasín 77,240 inhabitants 296 ha · 2.9 %

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
202624,440 Tizimín 2,362 ha
2024816,166 Tizimín 3,062 ha
20231587 Hopelchén 587 ha
202111,742 Tekax 1,742 ha
202011,629 Acanceh 1,629 ha
201923,995 Tekax 2,459 ha
201725,448 Tizimín 3,303 ha
201612,025 Dzilam de Bravo 2,025 ha

All fires in Yucatán · 18

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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