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Wildfires in Tepehuanes

Tepehuanes, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 38,547 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 1 Low 24° · 19 % · 42 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 23° · 22 % · 39 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 24° · 14 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 23° · 21 % · 48 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 20° · 27 % · 43 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 21° · 12 % · 52 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 16° · 33 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 11° · 59 % · 44 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

38,547
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
10
fires
6,097
km²

How many times has Tepehuanes burned?

Tepehuanes has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Tepehuanes fire, May 2025, with 5,645 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
10
fires
5
years with fire
38,547
cumulative ha
20 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 Tepehuanes

  1. 5,645 ha Tepehuanes fire, May 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,627 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,794 ha Tepehuanes fire, June 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,789 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,137 ha Tepehuanes fire, June 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,126 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 459 ha Guanaceví fire, 12 June 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,024 ha Tepehuanes fire, May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,016 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 4,761 ha Tepehuanes fire, 19 April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,734 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 13,978 ha Tepehuanes fire, 12 April 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 13,906 ha in total · 24 days
  8. 1,599 ha Tepehuanes fire, May 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,594 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,839 ha Tepehuanes fire, 20 April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,823 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 3,310 ha Tepehuanes fire, 12 April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,867 ha in total · 16 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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