Started on Sep 22, 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
Burning near the city of Tankuché, Mexico, an active wildfire has expanded to cover 400 hectares (988 acres) since it started on September 22, 2026. The fire has maintained an average daily growth of approximately 200 hectares per day over its two days of burning, with satellites currently picking up a moderate heat signature from the active front alongside 16 heat detections clustering nearby over the past 48 hours.
This incident occurs outside the region's typical fire season, which usually runs from March to June. Meanwhile, the broader wildfire activity in the country shows 1,336,023 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 69% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Mexico for 2 days. In total it burned about 400 ha (988 acres) — around 4.0 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 1,341,308 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 69% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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