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Wildfires in Culiacán

Culiacán, Mexico, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 7,118 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 33° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 34° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 73 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 69 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 65 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 63 % · 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

7,118
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
7
fires
6,333
km²

How many times has Culiacán burned?

Culiacán has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Culiacán fire, May 2025, with 822 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,118 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,262 hectares, 1.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
7,118
cumulative ha
6,262
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 Culiacán

  1. 822 ha Culiacán fire, May 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,582 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 752 ha Tamazula fire, April 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,630 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,612 ha Culiacán fire, April 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,985 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 118 ha Tamazula fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,595 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 1,907 ha Culiacán fire, May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,891 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 384 ha Tamazula fire, 17 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 3,287 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 523 ha Badiraguato fire, June 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 7 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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