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Wildfires in Álamos

Álamos, Mexico, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,467 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Moderate 33° · 42 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Low 31° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Low 30° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 39 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 32 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 28 High 33° · 21 % · 27 km/h
  8. Thu 29 High 33° · 23 % · 29 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

19,467
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
9
fires
6,446
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Álamos

  1. 64 ha Choix fire, April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,536 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 666 ha Chínipas fire, 27 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,396 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 14 ha Navojoa fire, May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,668 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 6,507 ha Álamos fire, April 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,489 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 3,434 ha Álamos fire, June 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 6,701 ha Álamos fire, May 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,669 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 17 ha Chínipas fire, May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 12,308 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 528 ha Chínipas fire, 2 June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,645 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,534 ha Álamos fire, May 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,692 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/World Bank (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).