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Wildfires in Cananea

Cananea, Mexico, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,787 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 Low 23° · 34 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 20° · 33 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 22° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 24° · 16 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 13 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 26° · 14 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 26° · 16 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 43 % · 56 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

1,787
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
3
fires
2,324
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Cananea

  1. 105 ha Fronteras fire, June 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 10,153 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,562 ha Imuris fire, October 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 2,872 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 120 ha Santa Cruz fire, June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 14,941 ha in total · 8 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).