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Wildfires in Sonora

Sonora, Mexico: 95 fires with a page have entered 46 of its 71 municipalities since 2016, burning 400,200 hectares inside the region. The largest was Villa Hidalgo in June 2017, with 19,340 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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: 400,200ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 2.2%; 181,343 km²
fires: 95; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 46; of 71
Largest fire: 19,340ha; Villa Hidalgo · June 2017
Inhabitants: 2,171,427; 184.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

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

Sat 24 High 29° · 32 % · 33 km/h
Sun 25 High 30° · 18 % · 32 km/h
Mon 26 Very high 32° · 11 % · 42 km/h
Tue 27 High 32° · 11 % · 24 km/h
Wed 28 High 32° · 16 % · 30 km/h
Thu 29 High 32° · 26 % · 30 km/h
Fri 30 High 28° · 51 % · 48 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

Yécora 36,192 ha · 14 %
Arizpe 30,875 ha · 10 %
Nácori Chico 25,603 ha · 9.0 %
Imuris 20,500 ha · 9.4 %
Fronteras 20,109 ha · 7.7 %
Álamos 19,467 ha · 3.0 %
Huachinera 18,587 ha · 15 %
Sahuaripa 17,706 ha · 3.5 %
Nacozari de García 17,500 ha · 10 %
Bavispe 16,191 ha · 9.4 %
Agua Prieta 15,898 ha · 4.0 %
Santa Cruz 14,881 ha · 15 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

10×Yécora36,192 ha
10×Sahuaripa17,706 ha
9×Álamos19,467 ha
8×Nácori Chico25,603 ha
8×Nacozari de García17,500 ha
7×Arizpe30,875 ha
7×Fronteras20,109 ha
5×Imuris20,500 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	3,951	Arivechi 3,951 ha
2025	8	50,732	Nácori Chico 13,353 ha
2024	1	598	Moris 598 ha
2023	15	52,268	Imuris 14,914 ha
2022	11	32,267	Sahuaripa 7,276 ha
2021	8	26,807	Álamos 6,701 ha
2020	3	9,031	Sahuaripa 4,644 ha
2019	4	22,568	Opodepe 13,613 ha
2018	15	47,708	Agua Prieta 9,095 ha
2017	19	110,150	Villa Hidalgo 19,340 ha
2016	10	44,120	Santa Cruz 15,001 ha

All fires in Sonora · 95

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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