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Wildfires in Bocoyna

Bocoyna, Mexico, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 41,176 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 45 % · 54 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 20° · 35 % · 39 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 39 % · 49 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 19° · 29 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 21° · 32 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 49 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 54 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 49 % · 37 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

41,176
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
13
fires
2,716
km²

How many times has Bocoyna burned?

Bocoyna has burned 13 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Bocoyna fire, 23 April 2025, with 1,792 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 41,176 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39,092 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
13
fires
6
years with fire
41,176
cumulative ha
39,092
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,500 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Mexico →

Fires that entered Bocoyna

  1. 1,792 ha Bocoyna fire, 23 April 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,786 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,882 ha Bocoyna fire, 19 April 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 11,060 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 3,980 ha Bocoyna fire, 17 April 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,631 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,466 ha Bocoyna fire, June 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,454 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 3,880 ha Bocoyna fire, 30 May 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,862 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,652 ha Bocoyna fire, 17 May 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,197 ha Bocoyna fire, May 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,003 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 360 ha Maguarichi fire, May 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,432 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 13,237 ha Bocoyna fire, April 2022 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 16,186 ha in total · 30 days
  10. 3,975 ha Bocoyna fire, May 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 10,258 ha in total · 25 days
  11. 2,250 ha Bocoyna fire, 25 May 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,513 ha Bocoyna fire, 17 May 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,993 ha Bocoyna fire, May 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,984 ha in total · 10 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).

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