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Wildfires in Nayarit

Nayarit, Mexico: 219 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 19 municipalities since 2016, burning 645,054 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mezquital in 15 April 2022, with 13,684 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
645,054ha
Since 2016
Of the region
23%
28,043 km²
fires
219
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
15
of 19
Largest fire
13,684ha
Mezquital · 15 April 2022
Inhabitants
491,153
1,313.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 36° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 34° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 57 % · 26 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

  1. Del Nayar 203,533 ha · 39 %
  2. La Yesca 182,163 ha · 42 %
  3. Huajicori 38,924 ha · 17 %
  4. Ixtlán del Río 31,659 ha · 64 %
  5. Tepic 425,924 inhabitants 29,426 ha · 18 %
  6. Amatlán de Cañas 27,116 ha · 52 %
  7. Santa María del Oro 26,702 ha · 24 %
  8. Acaponeta 23,420 ha · 16 %
  9. Rosamorada 21,505 ha · 12 %
  10. Jala 19,191 ha · 38 %
  11. San Pedro Lagunillas 17,056 ha · 33 %
  12. Compostela 11,185 ha · 5.9 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 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
20261141,689 La Yesca 13,006 ha
20251030,456 La Yesca 9,543 ha
20242273,608 Del Nayar 13,626 ha
20232977,206 Ixtlán del Río 9,540 ha
20222149,442 Mezquital 13,684 ha
20212267,288 Amatlán de Cañas 12,502 ha
2020611,865 Jala 2,955 ha
20192172,836 Del Nayar 13,097 ha
20181646,013 Tepic 6,557 ha
201736117,031 La Yesca 11,590 ha
20162557,621 Acaponeta 7,729 ha

All fires in Nayarit · 219

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).