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Wildfires in Sonora
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 23,110 km² of Sonora at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,880 km², ranking 16th 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 2023, with 4,160 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 1,740 km². The 2021–2025 average is 14% 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.
May, June and July together hold 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 June 2013, with detections in 255 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 23,110 km² with at least one detection, 17% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 14,850 | 64% |
| 2 years | 4,260 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,300 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 642 | 2.8% |
| 11 years or more | 44 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 30.25, -109.75 and holds 11% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3,620 | 5,821 |
| 2013 | 3,570 | 5,867 |
| 2014 | 2,730 | 4,431 |
| 2015 | 2,040 | 3,159 |
| 2016 | 3,220 | 4,964 |
| 2017 | 3,990 | 6,521 |
| 2018 | 2,710 | 4,353 |
| 2019 | 2,880 | 4,103 |
| 2020 | 2,520 | 3,836 |
| 2021 | 2,480 | 4,056 |
| 2022 | 2,680 | 4,210 |
| 2023 | 4,160 | 5,731 |
| 2024 | 1,740 | 2,847 |
| 2025 | 2,040 | 3,946 |
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
- Arizona, United States346 km
- Chihuahua507 km
- Baja California568 km
- Baja California Sur589 km
- New Mexico, United States612 km
- Sinaloa730 km