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Wildfires in Bavispe

Bavispe, Mexico, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 16,191 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Fri 23 Moderate 26° · 36 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 24° · 27 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 25° · 25 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 27° · 19 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 26° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 29° · 15 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 27° · 23 % · 33 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

16,191
hectares burned
9.4 %
of its area
4
fires
1,726
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bavispe

  1. 4,979 ha Bavispe fire, April 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,961 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 1,352 ha Agua Prieta fire, 10 June 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 4,887 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 337 ha Janos fire, June 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,116 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 9,523 ha Nacozari de García fire, 9 June 2017 5.5% of the municipality · 14,706 ha in total · 24 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).