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Wildfires in Tamazula

Tamazula, Mexico, has had 61 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 176,618 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 Low 29° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 30° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 30° · 33 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 31° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 56 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 47 % · 38 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

176,618
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
61
fires
5,826
km²

How many times has Tamazula burned?

Tamazula has burned 61 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Culiacán fire, May 2025, with 492 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 11× 17
  3. 7× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 8× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11.   26
61
fires
10
years with fire
176,618
cumulative ha
15 May 2025
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 Tamazula

  1. 492 ha Culiacán fire, May 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,582 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 3,029 ha Badiraguato fire, 14 May 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 5,507 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 5,611 ha Tamazula fire, May 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,828 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 891 ha Tamazula fire, April 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,630 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 29 ha Cosalá fire, April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,917 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 6,434 ha Culiacán fire, April 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 8,985 ha in total · 28 days
  7. 9,523 ha San Ignacio fire, March 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 49,719 ha in total · 65 days
  8. 960 ha San Ignacio fire, December 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 306 ha San Dimas fire, June 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 4,658 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 2,938 ha Tamazula fire, June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,738 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 1,865 ha Tamazula fire, May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 3,487 ha Tamazula fire, April 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,595 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 2,178 ha Tamazula fire, 23 May 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 6,038 ha Tamazula fire, 22 May 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,040 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 113 ha Santiago Papasquiaro fire, 21 May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,925 ha Tamazula fire, 17 May 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,287 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 2,117 ha Tamazula fire, 14 May 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,111 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 3 ha Badiraguato fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,958 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 3,570 ha Tamazula fire, May 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 2,000 ha Tamazula fire, 30 April 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,985 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 4,997 ha Tamazula fire, 29 April 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,983 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 13 ha Santiago Papasquiaro fire, June 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,883 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 5,505 ha Tamazula fire, June 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,462 ha in total · 17 days
  24. 3,572 ha Tamazula fire, 25 May 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,572 ha in total · 16 days
  25. 1,554 ha Tamazula fire, 23 May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 1,741 ha Tamazula fire, 22 May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,736 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 5,496 ha Tamazula fire, 18 May 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,489 ha in total · 20 days
  28. 1,892 ha Tamazula fire, 17 May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,890 ha in total · 16 days
  29. 3,877 ha Tamazula fire, April 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,863 ha in total · 17 days
  30. 1,501 ha Tamazula fire, 28 May 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 2,445 ha Tamazula fire, 11 May 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,426 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 1,521 ha Tamazula fire, 24 June 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,516 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 3,473 ha Tamazula fire, 9 June 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 21 days
  34. 9,133 ha Tamazula fire, 30 May 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 12,257 ha in total · 31 days
  35. 1,561 ha Tamazula fire, 21 May 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,558 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 6,072 ha Tamazula fire, 17 May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,068 ha in total · 20 days
  37. 2,112 ha Tamazula fire, 14 May 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 1,753 ha Tamazula fire, 5 May 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,742 ha in total · 9 days
  39. 2,108 ha Tamazula fire, 19 May 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,095 ha in total · 15 days
  40. 6,596 ha Tamazula fire, 19 May 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 15,732 ha in total · 24 days
  41. 285 ha Canelas fire, May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 13 days
  42. 2,825 ha Tamazula fire, 13 May 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,561 ha in total · 20 days
  43. 9,608 ha Cosalá fire, May 2018 1.6% of the municipality · 9,739 ha in total · 18 days
  44. 153 ha Topia fire, 4 May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,099 ha in total · 12 days
  45. 5,487 ha Tamazula fire, April 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,468 ha in total · 19 days
  46. 1,744 ha Tamazula fire, 21 June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,735 ha in total · 7 days
  47. 1,896 ha Tamazula fire, 1 June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,894 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 2,472 ha Tamazula fire, 28 May 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,465 ha in total · 14 days
  49. 436 ha Topia fire, May 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,481 ha in total · 18 days
  50. 6,006 ha Tamazula fire, 23 May 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,006 ha in total · 19 days
  51. 2,754 ha Tamazula fire, 23 May 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,757 ha in total · 18 days
  52. 3,776 ha Tamazula fire, 21 May 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,908 ha in total · 24 days
  53. 5,220 ha Tamazula fire, 17 May 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,253 ha in total · 27 days
  54. 1,956 ha Tamazula fire, 11 May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,955 ha in total · 13 days
  55. 2,282 ha Tamazula fire, 8 May 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,275 ha in total · 17 days
  56. 166 ha San Dimas fire, 6 May 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,797 ha in total · 14 days
  57. 1,770 ha Tamazula fire, 31 May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,765 ha in total · 7 days
  58. 1,571 ha Tamazula fire, 27 May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,569 ha in total · 5 days
  59. 2,481 ha Tamazula fire, May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,666 ha in total · 11 days
  60. 2,289 ha Tamazula fire, April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,275 ha in total · 15 days
  61. 14 ha San Ignacio fire, 18 April 2016 0.0% 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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