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Wildfires in San Ignacio

San Ignacio, Mexico, has had 36 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 155,276 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: 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. Sun 25 Low 32° · 39 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 32° · 43 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 30° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 74 % · 37 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 63 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 59 % · 27 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

155,276
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
36
fires
5,095
km²

How many times has San Ignacio burned?

San Ignacio has burned 36 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: San Ignacio fire, May 2025, with 3,017 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 155,276 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 117,574 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11.   26
36
fires
10
years with fire
155,276
cumulative ha
117,574
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 Ignacio

  1. 3,017 ha San Ignacio fire, May 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,006 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 5 ha Mazatlán fire, 30 April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,695 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 9,311 ha San Ignacio fire, April 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 9,253 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 29,517 ha San Ignacio fire, March 2025 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 49,719 ha in total · 65 days
  5. 2,086 ha San Ignacio fire, January 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,072 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,610 ha San Ignacio fire, December 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 432 ha San Dimas fire, June 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,658 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 2,493 ha San Ignacio fire, June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,514 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 1,952 ha San Ignacio fire, 28 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,941 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 4,283 ha San Ignacio fire, 17 April 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,478 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 392 ha San Dimas fire, June 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,043 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 4,433 ha San Ignacio fire, 27 May 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,407 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 3,413 ha San Ignacio fire, 17 May 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,389 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 2,213 ha San Ignacio fire, 10 May 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,199 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 4,360 ha San Ignacio fire, 1 May 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,333 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 1,549 ha San Ignacio fire, May 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,539 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 854 ha San Ignacio fire, March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 4,864 ha San Ignacio fire, April 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,866 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 2,561 ha San Ignacio fire, June 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,546 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 2,371 ha San Ignacio fire, June 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 3,146 ha Tamazula fire, 30 May 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 12,257 ha in total · 31 days
  22. 1,704 ha San Ignacio fire, 20 May 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,709 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 5,023 ha San Ignacio fire, 17 May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,992 ha in total · 18 days
  24. 5,908 ha San Ignacio fire, 17 May 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,870 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 3,753 ha San Ignacio fire, 4 May 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,730 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 18,084 ha San Ignacio fire, 20 April 2019 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 22,280 ha in total · 41 days
  27. 9,038 ha Tamazula fire, 19 May 2018 1.8% of the municipality · 15,732 ha in total · 24 days
  28. 9,982 ha San Ignacio fire, 10 May 2018 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 10,267 ha in total · 29 days
  29. 1,932 ha San Ignacio fire, 9 May 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,786 ha in total · 18 days
  30. 2,609 ha San Ignacio fire, 4 April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 14,174 ha in total · 39 days
  31. 74 ha San Dimas fire, March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,566 ha in total · 27 days
  32. 1,750 ha San Ignacio fire, 31 May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,738 ha in total · 10 days
  33. 2,352 ha San Ignacio fire, 22 May 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,337 ha in total · 10 days
  34. 1,774 ha San Ignacio fire, May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,886 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 2,284 ha San Ignacio fire, 22 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,276 ha in total · 17 days
  36. 4,148 ha San Ignacio fire, 18 April 2016 where it started 0.8% 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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