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Wildfires in Mazatlán

Mazatlán, Mexico, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,011 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 34° · 48 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 34° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 43 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 47 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 62 % · 31 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

12,011
hectares burned
4.7 %
of its area
7
fires
2,545
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mazatlán

  1. 1,700 ha Mazatlán fire, May 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,695 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,268 ha Mazatlán fire, April 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,500 ha Mazatlán fire, February 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,518 ha in total · 34 days
  4. 1,025 ha San Ignacio fire, April 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 5,866 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 3,067 ha San Ignacio fire, 20 April 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 22,280 ha in total · 36 days
  6. 332 ha San Ignacio fire, 10 May 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 10,267 ha in total · 27 days
  7. 119 ha San Ignacio fire, May 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,886 ha in total · 6 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).