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Wildfires in San Dimas

San Dimas, Mexico, has had 34 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,796 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 53 % · 39 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 89 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 60 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 37 % · 39 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

79,796
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
34
fires
5,513
km²

How many times has San Dimas burned?

San Dimas has burned 34 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: San Dimas fire, May 2025, with 5,855 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,796 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 73,273 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 7× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
34
fires
9
years with fire
79,796
cumulative ha
73,273
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 San Dimas

  1. 5,855 ha San Dimas fire, May 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,830 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 724 ha Concordia fire, May 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 14,538 ha in total · 29 days
  3. 7,096 ha San Ignacio fire, March 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 49,719 ha in total · 65 days
  4. 3,948 ha San Dimas fire, June 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,658 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 4,938 ha San Dimas fire, 10 May 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,913 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 7,448 ha San Dimas fire, 8 May 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,405 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 217 ha San Ignacio fire, 17 April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 4,478 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 566 ha Canatlán fire, June 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,062 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,663 ha San Dimas fire, June 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,043 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 16 ha Concordia fire, May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,883 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 9 ha Otáez fire, May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,026 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 2,748 ha San Dimas fire, March 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,734 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 1,110 ha San Ignacio fire, March 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 1 ha Concordia fire, May 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,924 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,555 ha San Dimas fire, April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,546 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,190 ha San Dimas fire, June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,184 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 17 ha San Ignacio fire, 20 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,709 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 1 ha San Ignacio fire, 17 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,992 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 2,402 ha Pueblo Nuevo fire, 14 May 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 8,101 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 3,128 ha San Dimas fire, April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,111 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 1,238 ha San Ignacio fire, 20 April 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 22,280 ha in total · 41 days
  22. 1,729 ha San Dimas fire, 17 May 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,725 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 4 ha Otáez fire, May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 20 days
  24. 2,219 ha San Dimas fire, 11 May 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,011 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 1,868 ha San Ignacio fire, 9 May 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 3,786 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 1,960 ha San Dimas fire, April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 11,619 ha San Ignacio fire, 4 April 2018 2.1% of the municipality · 14,174 ha in total · 39 days
  28. 3,511 ha San Dimas fire, March 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,566 ha in total · 27 days
  29. 463 ha Santiago Papasquiaro fire, June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 11 days
  30. 2,405 ha San Dimas fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 2,888 ha San Dimas fire, 17 May 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,045 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 1,643 ha San Dimas fire, 6 May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,797 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 2,062 ha San Dimas fire, March 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 557 ha San Ignacio fire, 18 April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,684 ha in total · 19 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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