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Wildfires in Durango

Durango, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 42,456 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 25° · 25 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 34 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 46 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 44 % · 28 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

42,456
hectares burned
4.5 %
of its area
10
fires
9,331
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Durango

  1. 2,165 ha Durango fire, June 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,160 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,270 ha Mezquital fire, 30 April 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 5,225 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,158 ha Durango fire, April 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,702 ha Durango fire, June 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,895 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 2,524 ha Durango fire, May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,360 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 275 ha Pueblo Nuevo fire, 4 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 11,377 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 23,893 ha Durango fire, April 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 38,155 ha in total · 32 days
  8. 2,977 ha Durango fire, May 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,969 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 107 ha Pueblo Nuevo fire, June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,537 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 4,386 ha Durango fire, June 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,948 ha in total · 12 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).