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Wildfires in Urique

Urique, Mexico, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 28,912 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.7% 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. Fri 23 Very low 24° · 40 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 61 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 24° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 24° · 23 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 35 % · 41 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

28,912
hectares burned
8.7 %
of its area
14
fires
3,314
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Urique

  1. 2,003 ha Urique fire, May 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,994 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 90 ha Guazapares fire, April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,952 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,785 ha Urique fire, May 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,778 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,854 ha Urique fire, 28 May 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,728 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 1,569 ha Urique fire, 13 May 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,237 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,647 ha Urique fire, May 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,639 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 88 ha Guazapares fire, May 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,072 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,830 ha Urique fire, June 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,824 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,417 ha Urique fire, 31 May 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,567 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 3,918 ha Urique fire, 24 May 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,540 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 5,684 ha Urique fire, June 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,975 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 4,728 ha Guazapares fire, 7 June 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 8,505 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 2,099 ha Urique fire, May 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 202 ha Guazapares fire, June 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,867 ha in total · 9 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).