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Wildfires in Moris

Moris, Mexico, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 39,840 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very 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. Fri 23 Low 25° · 42 % · 53 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 51 % · 61 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 23° · 37 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 24° · 35 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 31 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 63 % · 50 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

39,840
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
11
fires
1,813
km²

How many times has Moris burned?

Moris has burned 11 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Yécora fire, 4 May 2025, with 14,185 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 39,840 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 35,839 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
11
fires
7
years with fire
39,840
cumulative ha
35,839
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 Moris

  1. 14,185 ha Yécora fire, 4 May 2025 7.8% of the municipality · 17,687 ha in total · 33 days
  2. 2,241 ha Moris fire, 17 March 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,235 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,964 ha Moris fire, 2 March 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,952 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 5,830 ha Moris fire, May 2024 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,402 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 355 ha Rosario fire, 27 May 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,641 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,880 ha Moris fire, June 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,879 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 881 ha Temósachic fire, 27 May 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 16,100 ha in total · 25 days
  8. 1,302 ha Yécora fire, 6 May 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 6,466 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 3,395 ha Moris fire, June 2018 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,387 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 3,521 ha Moris fire, June 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,508 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,285 ha Uruachi fire, June 2017 1.8% of the municipality · 5,203 ha in total · 11 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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