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Wildfires in Sinaloa

Sinaloa, Mexico: 112 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 18 municipalities since 2016, burning 369,484 hectares inside the region. The largest was San Ignacio in March 2025, with 33,359 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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
369,484ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.6%
55,877 km²
fires
112
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 18
Largest fire
33,359ha
San Ignacio · March 2025
Inhabitants
891,317
414.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 37° · 32 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 37° · 27 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 38° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 38° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 35° · 45 % · 42 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. San Ignacio 155,276 ha · 30 %
  2. Sinaloa 78,670 inhabitants 66,332 ha · 10 %
  3. Badiraguato 44,994 ha · 9.3 %
  4. Rosario 31,608 ha · 12 %
  5. Concordia 25,608 ha · 12 %
  6. Mazatlán 501,441 inhabitants 12,011 ha · 4.7 %
  7. Choix 10,972 ha · 3.4 %
  8. Mocorito 7,755 ha · 2.8 %
  9. Cosalá 7,755 ha · 3.6 %
  10. Culiacán 13,197 inhabitants 7,118 ha · 1.1 %
  11. Escuinapa 56 ha · 0.0 %

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
202611,461 Badiraguato 1,461 ha
20251785,915 San Ignacio 33,359 ha
2024925,843 Rosario 6,344 ha
20231951,527 Guadalupe y Calvo 14,969 ha
202256,885 Urique 2,516 ha
20211030,356 Rosario 6,851 ha
202045,189 San Ignacio 2,561 ha
2019844,409 San Ignacio 21,151 ha
20182072,730 Choix 11,238 ha
20171116,900 Sinaloa 2,454 ha
2016828,270 Sinaloa 10,914 ha

All fires in Sinaloa · 112

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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