🇲🇽 Mexico: wildfires in August 2026
Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.
Mexico, August 2026: 96 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 05:08.
Busiest day: 4 August, with 10 ignitions detected.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 96 detection events in Mexico, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 1186 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Isabel | 9 Aug, 23:02 | 4 | 1186 |
| Hacienda Tecate | 17 Aug, 21:12 | 61 | 510 |
| Ascención | 25 Aug, 23:02 | 5 | 391 |
| Santa Isabel | 14 Aug, 23:02 | 4 | 374 |
| Méndez | 21 Aug, 18:22 | 45 | 366 |
| Güémez | 31 Aug, 17:59 | 13 | 326 |
| Cristóbal Colón | 25 Aug, 18:13 | 32 | 266 |
| Miguel Ahumada | 29 Aug, 00:02 | 4 | 261 |
| Soto la Marina | 15 Aug, 20:42 | 11 | 244 |
| Chablé | 29 Aug, 18:23 | 14 | 237 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Mexico, August 2026: 96 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-06.
Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.
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