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Wildfires in Durango

Durango, Mexico: 278 fires with a page have entered 21 of its 39 municipalities since 2016, burning 869,735 hectares inside the region. The largest was Durango in April 2019, with 38,336 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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: 869,735ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 7.0%; 124,248 km²
fires: 278; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 21; of 39
Largest fire: 38,336ha; Durango · April 2019
Inhabitants: 1,054,772; 824.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Low 26° · 27 % · 29 km/h
Sat 24 Very low 25° · 36 % · 31 km/h
Sun 25 Low 25° · 31 % · 50 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 22° · 42 % · 25 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 23° · 36 % · 29 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 22° · 48 % · 28 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 21° · 58 % · 30 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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

Mezquital 204,076 ha · 24 %
Tamazula 176,618 ha · 30 %
Pueblo Nuevo 173,206 ha · 25 %
San Dimas 79,786 ha · 14 %
Durango 518,709 inhabitants 42,456 ha · 4.5 %
Tepehuanes 38,547 ha · 6.3 %
Santiago Papasquiaro 36,490 ha · 5.7 %
Otáez 22,865 ha · 13 %
Guanaceví 19,616 ha · 3.6 %
San Bernardo 19,405 ha · 8.4 %
Canelas 15,420 ha · 17 %
Canatlán 12,109 ha · 3.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

78×Mezquital204,076 ha
61×Tamazula176,618 ha
60×Pueblo Nuevo173,206 ha
34×San Dimas79,786 ha
25×Santiago Papasquiaro36,490 ha
11×Otáez22,865 ha
10×Durango42,456 ha
10×Tepehuanes38,547 ha

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	1	1,601	Gómez Palacio 1,601 ha
2025	17	63,359	San Ignacio 16,619 ha
2024	16	37,814	San Dimas 7,448 ha
2023	25	65,052	Mezquital 6,236 ha
2022	22	83,964	San Bernardo 19,824 ha
2021	43	127,998	Pueblo Nuevo 15,383 ha
2020	7	16,689	Mezquital 4,291 ha
2019	46	193,815	Durango 38,336 ha
2018	33	102,519	San Ignacio 11,619 ha
2017	50	139,623	Pueblo Nuevo 10,631 ha
2016	18	37,300	Pueblo Nuevo 4,312 ha

All fires in Durango · 278

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).