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Wildfires in Sinaloa

Sinaloa, Mexico, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 66,332 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 29 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 22 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 37° · 15 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 35° · 19 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 64 % · 35 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

66,332
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
16
fires
6,348
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Sinaloa

  1. 808 ha Morelos fire, 1 April 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 4,376 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,120 ha Sinaloa fire, May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,418 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1 ha Guadalupe y Calvo fire, 23 May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,179 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 14,969 ha Guadalupe y Calvo fire, 7 May 2023 2.4% of the municipality · 15,436 ha in total · 31 days
  5. 2,909 ha Sinaloa fire, May 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,893 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,573 ha Sinaloa fire, May 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,566 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 8,629 ha Choix fire, May 2018 1.4% of the municipality · 11,180 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 10,645 ha Sinaloa fire, April 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 10,598 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 2,454 ha Sinaloa fire, 30 May 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,444 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 1,745 ha Sinaloa fire, 30 May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,736 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,817 ha Sinaloa fire, 12 May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,810 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,808 ha Sinaloa fire, 11 May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,800 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,370 ha Sinaloa fire, June 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 97 ha Mocorito fire, June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,308 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,474 ha Sinaloa fire, 29 May 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,453 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 10,914 ha Sinaloa fire, 21 May 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 10,864 ha in total · 20 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).