Bushfires fear Now at least five other states say they are weeks away from being in the same position. If they too were declared disaster zones it would stretch the emergency pot and place a vast swathe of agriculture in crisis. Together, those states stretch across the border with the United States and cover well over half of Mexico's land mass. But it is not just farming that is in danger. Even supplies of drinking water are dangerously low and the dry spell has turned the region into a vast tinderbox.
Government officials say they are deeply worried about the prospect of bushfires.
Unless we get rain soon, one told me, there will not be much left apart from dust.