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Wildfires in Canelas

Canelas, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 15,420 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 24° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 26° · 30 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 39 % · 34 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 58 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 52 % · 32 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

15,420
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
10
fires
897
km²

How many times has Canelas burned?

Canelas has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Santiago Papasquiaro fire, May 2025, with 905 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
10
fires
6
years with fire
15,420
cumulative ha
21 May 2025
most recent

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 Canelas

  1. 905 ha Santiago Papasquiaro fire, May 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 1,939 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,641 ha Canelas fire, May 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,225 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,666 ha Canelas fire, April 2025 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,655 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 2,032 ha Canelas fire, May 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 79 ha Santiago Papasquiaro fire, 7 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,709 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,999 ha Canelas fire, June 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,356 ha Canelas fire, May 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 55 ha Tamazula fire, 17 May 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 5,253 ha in total · 27 days
  9. 1,963 ha Canelas fire, May 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,289 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 1,723 ha Santiago Papasquiaro fire, 9 May 2017 1.9% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 23 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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