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Wildfires in Uruachi

Uruachi, Mexico, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 30,286 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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 25° · 45 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 64 % · 49 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 25° · 28 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 25° · 27 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 25° · 24 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 32 % · 33 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

30,286
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
15
fires
2,669
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Uruachi

  1. 5,853 ha Uruachi fire, March 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,830 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 1,231 ha Uruachi fire, June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,716 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 799 ha Uruachi fire, June 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,737 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 387 ha Rosario fire, 27 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,641 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 356 ha Chínipas fire, 23 May 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,756 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 4,278 ha Rosario fire, 15 May 2023 1.6% of the municipality · 8,416 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 203 ha Guazapares fire, June 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 4,397 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 2,886 ha Uruachi fire, May 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,973 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 10 ha Guazapares fire, 5 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,774 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,052 ha Uruachi fire, May 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 201 ha Quiriego fire, June 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,996 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 3,570 ha Uruachi fire, May 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,553 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 1,938 ha Uruachi fire, June 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,203 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 827 ha Chínipas fire, 3 June 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 1,574 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 5,695 ha Uruachi fire, May 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,671 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).