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Wildfires in Madera

Madera, Mexico, has had 33 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 271,845 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 Very low 21° · 48 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 36 % · 61 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 36 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 22° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 21° · 21 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 22° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 20° · 41 % · 41 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

271,845
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
33
fires
8,768
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Madera

  1. 2,393 ha Madera fire, May 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,386 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 30,625 ha Madera fire, April 2025 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 51,926 ha in total · 32 days
  3. 19,519 ha Nácori Chico fire, April 2025 2.2% of the municipality · 32,663 ha in total · 33 days
  4. 11,505 ha Madera fire, March 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 11,405 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 6,413 ha Madera fire, June 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,421 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 775 ha Casas Grandes fire, May 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,016 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,281 ha Temósachic fire, 22 April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 5,027 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 4,274 ha Madera fire, 18 June 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,242 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 14,024 ha Madera fire, 14 June 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 13,944 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 2,732 ha Madera fire, 11 June 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,731 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 679 ha Madera fire, May 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,517 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 3,553 ha Madera fire, 29 May 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,752 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 1,570 ha Madera fire, 7 May 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,564 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 11,822 ha Madera fire, April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 11,824 ha in total · 24 days
  15. 3,239 ha Sahuaripa fire, April 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 11,347 ha in total · 16 days
  16. 10,588 ha Temósachic fire, April 2022 1.2% of the municipality · 12,366 ha in total · 20 days
  17. 6,202 ha Madera fire, 22 June 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,214 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,942 ha Madera fire, 21 June 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,934 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 1,676 ha Madera fire, 7 June 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,671 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 2,636 ha Madera fire, 2 June 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,615 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,596 ha Madera fire, 30 May 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,598 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 23,305 ha Madera fire, 17 May 2018 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 29,734 ha in total · 22 days
  23. 4,738 ha Madera fire, 16 May 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,902 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 3,888 ha Madera fire, 16 May 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,881 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 36,037 ha Madera fire, 4 May 2018 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 36,227 ha in total · 33 days
  26. 22,479 ha Madera fire, 5 April 2018 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 22,377 ha in total · 25 days
  27. 2,929 ha Madera fire, 2 April 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,921 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 715 ha Nácori Chico fire, June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,817 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 14,110 ha Madera fire, June 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 14,441 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 2,979 ha Temósachic fire, 10 June 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 10,114 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 4,488 ha Madera fire, May 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,472 ha in total · 18 days
  32. 11,828 ha Madera fire, April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 11,828 ha in total · 16 days
  33. 4,306 ha Madera fire, June 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,189 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).