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🇲🇽 Mexico: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 25 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 15:40.

Busiest day: 2 October, with 4 ignitions detected. -76% compared with September 2026.

25
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
194
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 25 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: 194 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 2022026-10-02: 4042026-10-04: 3052026-10-05: 4082026-10-08: 1092026-10-09: 1132026-10-13: 2242026-10-24: 3252026-10-25: 2272026-10-27: 2282026-10-28: 1

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Janos24 Oct, 21:2215194
Vega de Alatorre2 Oct, 20:533166
Reforma13 Oct, 19:178163
Golfo de Santa Clara8 Oct, 00:022152
El Silencio4 Oct, 18:394148
Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz2 Oct, 20:2524132
La Estrella28 Oct, 20:2315124
Bahía Asunción5 Oct, 18:1930123
Bahía Asunción5 Oct, 18:196113
Guerrero Negro5 Oct, 18:192110

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Mexico, October 2026: 25 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

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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