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Wildfires in Sinaloa
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 34,760 km² of Sinaloa at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 5,840 km², ranking 9th of 32 regions of Mexico.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2012, with 8,350 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 3,670 km². The 2021–2025 average is 25% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
April, May and June together hold 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 May 2012, with detections in 289 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 34,760 km² with at least one detection, 35% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 13,750 | 40% |
| 2 years | 8,900 | 26% |
| 3 to 5 years | 10,220 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,860 | 5.4% |
| 11 years or more | 33 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 24.25, -106.75 and holds 6.1% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8,350 | 10,261 |
| 2013 | 7,900 | 9,607 |
| 2014 | 5,650 | 6,217 |
| 2015 | 5,010 | 5,475 |
| 2016 | 5,980 | 6,937 |
| 2017 | 6,640 | 7,930 |
| 2018 | 5,780 | 7,408 |
| 2019 | 6,220 | 7,603 |
| 2020 | 5,490 | 6,455 |
| 2021 | 5,210 | 6,601 |
| 2022 | 5,360 | 6,289 |
| 2023 | 5,930 | 7,566 |
| 2024 | 3,670 | 4,947 |
| 2025 | 4,500 | 7,429 |
Other regions of Mexico
- Guerrero14,510 km² in an average year
- Chiapas14,110 km² in an average year
- Campeche13,010 km² in an average year
- Jalisco10,370 km² in an average year
- Michoacán10,140 km² in an average year
- Oaxaca9,750 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Durango188 km
- Chihuahua228 km
- Nayarit301 km
- Zacatecas489 km
- Baja California Sur516 km
- Aguascalientes537 km