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Wildfires in Sahuaripa

Sahuaripa, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,706 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 23° · 46 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 26° · 30 % · 45 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 26° · 27 % · 38 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 29 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 26° · 27 % · 42 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 69 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 52 % · 34 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

17,706
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
10
fires
5,021
km²

How many times has Sahuaripa burned?

Sahuaripa has burned 10 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Arivechi fire, May 2026, with 2,041 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
8
years with fire
17,706
cumulative ha
30 May 2026
most recent

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 Sahuaripa

  1. 2,041 ha Arivechi fire, May 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 3,944 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 100 ha Yécora fire, 4 May 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 9,352 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 7,276 ha Sahuaripa fire, April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 11,347 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 724 ha Bacanora fire, June 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,624 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 125 ha Yécora fire, 24 May 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,984 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 3,832 ha Sahuaripa fire, May 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,644 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 3 ha Temósachic fire, April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,274 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 1,512 ha Sahuaripa fire, June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,512 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 213 ha Yécora fire, June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,502 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 1,880 ha Madera fire, June 2016 0.4% 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).

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