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Wildfires in Chihuahua

Chihuahua, Mexico: 253 fires with a page have entered 39 of its 67 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,047,958 hectares inside the region. The largest was Madera in April 2025, with 52,124 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
1,047,958ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.2%
248,692 km²
fires
253
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
39
of 67
Largest fire
52,124ha
Madera · April 2025
Inhabitants
2,964,501
353.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 7 Low 14° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 10° · 91 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 51 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 18° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 18° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 18° · 64 % · 37 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Madera 271,845 ha · 31 %
  2. Guadalupe y Calvo 158,268 ha · 16 %
  3. Casas Grandes 51,950 ha · 14 %
  4. Guerrero 47,134 ha · 8.2 %
  5. Namiquipa 43,569 ha · 8.9 %
  6. Bocoyna 41,176 ha · 15 %
  7. Moris 39,840 ha · 22 %
  8. Temósachic 36,467 ha · 8.5 %
  9. Guachochi 34,804 ha · 5.0 %
  10. Uruachi 30,286 ha · 11 %
  11. Urique 28,912 ha · 8.7 %
  12. Morelos 28,103 ha · 13 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,500 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
2026611,702 Guadalupe y Calvo 3,821 ha
202531194,855 Madera 52,124 ha
20241968,820 Madera 6,413 ha
20232784,222 Madera 14,024 ha
20222184,624 Bocoyna 16,263 ha
202141135,298 Temósachic 14,994 ha
202035,937 Guazapares 2,075 ha
2019927,465 Madera 6,202 ha
201850270,767 Madera 36,194 ha
201735141,265 Madera 14,418 ha
20161123,002 Madera 4,306 ha

All fires in Chihuahua · 253

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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