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Wildfires in Chínipas

Chínipas, Mexico, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 23,396 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 29° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 48 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 44 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 28° · 32 % · 17 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 29° · 35 % · 20 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

23,396
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
14
fires
1,999
km²

How many times has Chínipas burned?

Chínipas has burned 14 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Choix fire, April 2025, with 0 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,396 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,897 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
14
fires
9
years with fire
23,396
cumulative ha
21,897
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 Chínipas

  1. 0 ha Choix fire, April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,536 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 492 ha Uruachi fire, June 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,716 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,733 ha Chínipas fire, 27 May 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,396 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,412 ha Chínipas fire, 23 May 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,756 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 21 ha Álamos fire, June 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 98 ha Uruachi fire, May 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,973 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 1,788 ha Chínipas fire, June 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,782 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 27 ha Uruachi fire, May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 12,325 ha Chínipas fire, May 2018 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 12,308 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 1,779 ha Chínipas fire, 7 June 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,769 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 756 ha Chínipas fire, 2 June 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,574 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,682 ha Guazapares fire, 1 June 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 3,488 ha in total · 21 days
  13. 1,119 ha Chínipas fire, 1 June 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,645 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 165 ha Álamos fire, May 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,692 ha in total · 9 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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