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Wildfire near Jonuta (Sep 4)

Ended · 230 hectares (568 acres) · Started · Updated

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230Hectares568Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Sep 4, 2026.

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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

An active wildfire spanning 230 hectares (568 acres) has been tracked near Jonuta, Mexico, following its start on September 4, 2026. Satellites are currently picking up a moderate heat signature from the front, alongside 15 heat detections clustering nearby over the last 48 hours to indicate the current spread of the fire.

This incident unfolds during a broader national landscape where 1,312,340 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits 70 percent below the country's two-decade average. While this particular fire is active in September, the region's typical fire season historically runs from March to June.

In context

This wildfire burned in Mexico for 2 days. In total it burned about 230 ha (568 acres) — around 2.3 km².

Close to the tropics, fires tend to follow the dry season and are often linked to land-clearing rather than a single summer peak.

The bigger picture in Mexico

Across Mexico, roughly 1,342,925 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 69% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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