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Wildfires in Guachochi

Guachochi, Mexico, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 34,804 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Very low 21° · 35 % · 34 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 39 % · 36 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 21° · 26 % · 31 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 39 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 61 % · 42 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 37 % · 48 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 49 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 23° · 30 % · 37 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

34,804
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
13
fires
7,001
km²

How many times has Guachochi burned?

Guachochi has burned 13 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Guachochi fire, June 2025, with 1,827 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 34,804 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,820 hectares, 4.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 5× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
13
fires
5
years with fire
34,804
cumulative ha
31,820
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 Guachochi

  1. 1,827 ha Guachochi fire, June 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,816 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 9,730 ha Guachochi fire, May 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 9,720 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 2,033 ha Guachochi fire, March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 3,490 ha Guachochi fire, 23 May 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,468 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,757 ha Guachochi fire, 18 May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,754 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,129 ha Batopilas fire, June 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 4,397 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,940 ha Guachochi fire, 10 June 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,931 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,729 ha Guachochi fire, 9 June 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,720 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 6,031 ha Guachochi fire, 7 June 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,025 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 0 ha Guadalupe y Calvo fire, 16 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,664 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 2,095 ha Guachochi fire, April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 263 ha Bocoyna fire, 25 May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,779 ha Guachochi fire, April 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,779 ha in total · 10 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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