🇲🇽 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.
"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."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janos | 24 Oct, 21:22 | 15 | 194 |
| Vega de Alatorre | 2 Oct, 20:53 | 3 | 166 |
| Reforma | 13 Oct, 19:17 | 8 | 163 |
| Golfo de Santa Clara | 8 Oct, 00:02 | 2 | 152 |
| El Silencio | 4 Oct, 18:39 | 4 | 148 |
| Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz | 2 Oct, 20:25 | 24 | 132 |
| La Estrella | 28 Oct, 20:23 | 15 | 124 |
| Bahía Asunción | 5 Oct, 18:19 | 30 | 123 |
| Bahía Asunción | 5 Oct, 18:19 | 6 | 113 |
| Guerrero Negro | 5 Oct, 18:19 | 2 | 110 |
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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