Worst fire season ever, 1998. 1.25 million acres (505,857 hectares) burned during a severe drought. Smoke reaching Texas triggered a statewide health alert.
Reference: Rodriguez-Trejo, D., and S. Pyne. 1999. Mexican fires of 1998. International Forest Fire News 20 (January 1999).
NRDC. 1998. Scorched Earth: impacts and implications of the 1998 fire disaster in North and Central America. Natural Resources Defense Council.
