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Wildfires in Uruapan

Uruapan, Mexico, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,650 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 21° · 29 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 13° · 78 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 65 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 56 % · 18 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

12,650
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
10
fires
1,019
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Uruapan

  1. 1,845 ha Gabriel Zamora fire, May 2025 1.8% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,009 ha Uruapan fire, May 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,235 ha Gabriel Zamora fire, April 2024 1.2% of the municipality · 5,344 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 803 ha Gabriel Zamora fire, April 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 1,548 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,162 ha Gabriel Zamora fire, May 2022 1.1% of the municipality · 3,840 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 3,633 ha Uruapan fire, April 2022 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 3,629 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 36 ha Tancítaro fire, April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,558 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,112 ha Ziracuaretiro fire, April 2021 1.1% of the municipality · 2,785 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 1,351 ha Uruapan fire, May 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,538 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 464 ha Gabriel Zamora fire, April 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 8 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).