Fire atlas
Fires in Spain
Satellite-detected fires in Spain right now, plus five years of NASA FIRMS archive: 121,410 detections, 19,625 distinct fires, season and worst years by region.
Fires burning now in Spain
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Window: last 24 hours, NASA FIRMS
See it on the mapFive years of archive
2020 to 2026 · through 2026-07-31
The years up to 2024 come from NASA’s finalized yearly archives. What follows, through 2026-07-31, comes from its near-real-time interface: 2026 is therefore a partial year, and its most recent weeks have not yet received the classification that removes volcanoes, flares and industrial sources. A very recent fire counts here, with a little more noise around it.
- Satellite detections
- 121,410
- Distinct fires
- 19,625
- Busiest month
- August
- Worst year
- 2025
- Strongest signal
- 11,276 MW
- Seen at night
- 54.8%
- Detections per 1,000 km²
- 240.1
Detections per year
| Year | Detections |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 8,887 |
| 2021 | 23,575 |
| 2022 | 22,320 |
| 2023 | 10,627 |
| 2024 | 6,264 |
| 2025 | 33,828 |
| 2026 | 15,909 |
The season
Share of detections by month, over the five years together.
| Month | Detections |
|---|---|
| Jan | 3,042 |
| Feb | 5,684 |
| Mar | 7,221 |
| Apr | 4,317 |
| May | 3,716 |
| Jun | 7,296 |
| Jul | 24,548 |
| Aug | 37,225 |
| Sep | 7,409 |
| Oct | 11,135 |
| Nov | 6,317 |
| Dec | 3,500 |
The most affected areas
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Castile and León | 27,296 |
| Canary Islands | 17,317 |
| Galicia | 16,956 |
| Andalusia | 12,102 |
| Extremadura | 10,133 |
| Castile-La Mancha | 7,476 |
| Principado de Asturias | 6,801 |
| Valencian Community | 5,394 |
| Aragón | 4,143 |
| Cantabria | 3,640 |
| Catalonia | 3,093 |
| Comunidad Foral de Navarra | 2,866 |
The season is not the same everywhere
Each row is scaled to its own peak, so the comparison is between calendars rather than volumes. A row lighting up in summer is a forest-fire regime; a row lighting up in late winter signals agricultural burning.
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Castile and León | Jan: 317 · Feb: 556 · Mar: 729 · Apr: 511 · May: 197 · Jun: 1,751 · Jul: 7,519 · Aug: 14,688 · Sep: 466 · Oct: 254 · Nov: 194 · Dec: 114 |
| Canary Islands | Jan: 664 · Feb: 314 · Mar: 181 · Apr: 99 · May: 336 · Jun: 80 · Jul: 575 · Aug: 1,442 · Sep: 1,622 · Oct: 6,435 · Nov: 3,539 · Dec: 2,030 |
| Galicia | Jan: 98 · Feb: 156 · Mar: 182 · Apr: 223 · May: 105 · Jun: 171 · Jul: 3,870 · Aug: 10,711 · Sep: 1,349 · Oct: 57 · Nov: 24 · Dec: 10 |
| Andalusia | Jan: 283 · Feb: 577 · Mar: 380 · Apr: 309 · May: 766 · Jun: 1,874 · Jul: 2,164 · Aug: 1,959 · Sep: 1,934 · Oct: 886 · Nov: 685 · Dec: 285 |
| Extremadura | Jan: 136 · Feb: 368 · Mar: 521 · Apr: 260 · May: 1,253 · Jun: 448 · Jul: 1,698 · Aug: 3,251 · Sep: 479 · Oct: 1,230 · Nov: 330 · Dec: 159 |
| Castile-La Mancha | Jan: 209 · Feb: 373 · Mar: 283 · Apr: 229 · May: 215 · Jun: 517 · Jul: 3,383 · Aug: 577 · Sep: 745 · Oct: 597 · Nov: 202 · Dec: 146 |
| Principado de Asturias | Jan: 366 · Feb: 952 · Mar: 2,165 · Apr: 896 · May: 128 · Jun: 195 · Jul: 231 · Aug: 1,164 · Sep: 129 · Oct: 239 · Nov: 122 · Dec: 214 |
| Valencian Community | Jan: 161 · Feb: 200 · Mar: 522 · Apr: 262 · May: 147 · Jun: 151 · Jul: 1,085 · Aug: 2,041 · Sep: 93 · Oct: 249 · Nov: 359 · Dec: 124 |
| Aragón | Jan: 160 · Feb: 349 · Mar: 422 · Apr: 105 · May: 95 · Jun: 328 · Jul: 1,475 · Aug: 564 · Sep: 103 · Oct: 212 · Nov: 240 · Dec: 90 |
| Cantabria | Jan: 269 · Feb: 813 · Mar: 938 · Apr: 831 · May: 117 · Jun: 41 · Jul: 27 · Aug: 146 · Sep: 104 · Oct: 148 · Nov: 139 · Dec: 67 |
Regions
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Castile and León | 27,296 |
| Canary Islands | 17,317 |
| Galicia | 16,956 |
| Andalusia | 12,102 |
| Extremadura | 10,133 |
| Castile-La Mancha | 7,476 |
| Principado de Asturias | 6,801 |
| Valencian Community | 5,394 |
| Aragón | 4,143 |
| Cantabria | 3,640 |
| Catalonia | 3,093 |
| Comunidad Foral de Navarra | 2,866 |
| Comunidad de Madrid | 1,709 |
| Región de Murcia | 1,427 |
| Basque Country | 435 |
| Balearic Islands | 298 |
| La Rioja | 297 |
Without a page of their own
These areas stay below the publication floor: too few detections, or too few distinct fires over five years, for a page to say anything beyond this number.
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Ciudad de Ceuta | 26 |
| Ciudad de Melilla | 1 |
The largest recorded fires
The largest fires recorded here over five years — when each was first seen from orbit, and where.
14,134 detections · 22.1 km across · 5,397 MW
4,330 detections · 67.1 km across · 1,899 MW
2,809 detections · 34.3 km across · 3,154 MW
2,768 detections · 43.2 km across · 2,656 MW
2,712 detections · 44.9 km across · 2,168 MW
A first detection is not an ignition. A polar satellite passes only a few times a day, so a fire is seen on the next overpass — sometimes hours after it started, in a pixel about 375 m across. The point given is where it was first seen, not where it began. The span is the straight-line distance between detections: a floor on how far the fire reached, never a burned area. The named municipality is the one nearest the centre of the detections.
Aerial response in Spain
96 verified aircraft in the catalog, tracked over ADS-B when they transmit.
See the Spain registerThe questions people ask
- Where are the wildfires in Spain today?
- The region table below shows, for each of them, the satellite detections from the last 24 hours. Open a region to go down to the province, or go straight to the map, which shows every detection point with its time and its power.
- Which regions of Spain burn the most?
- The ranking below answers directly: regions are sorted by satellite detections over five years, most affected first. Each row leads to a page detailing its season, its worst years and its largest fires.
- When is the fire season in Spain?
- Over five years, August is the month with the most detections in Spain. But a national average hides opposite regimes: the Mediterranean coast burns in summer, while some inland regions peak in late winter because of agricultural burning.
- Can this map replace an official alert?
- No. Fire Maps shows observations and models, with their timestamps and their limits; it replaces neither the authorities, nor official alerts, nor incident command. In immediate danger, call the emergency services and follow official instructions.
How to read this page
A detection is not a fire. It is a pixel the satellite saw radiating like fire. One fire lights several pixels and comes back on every overpass: the unit counted here is evidence of heat, not the incident. That is why the page also gives a count of distinct fires, obtained by chaining detections that are close in space and in time.
The archive has gaps, and they are not random. A polar satellite passes a few times a day; under cloud it sees nothing; a fire smaller than the pixel can go unnoticed; a fire smouldering under canopy radiates little. An area with no detection is an area where nothing was seen — which is not the same as an area where nothing burned.
Two filters were applied, and this is what they removed. First NASA's own classification: 18,413 rows flagged as volcano, fixed ground source or offshore flare were discarded. Then persistence: 240 cells of about 500 metres lit in six different months across at least three distinct years behave like an industrial installation rather than a season; their 4,993 detections were removed.
Not everything that burns is a wildfire. Stubble burning, pastoral burning and the disposal of agricultural residue all produce perfectly real detections, often outside the summer season. A February or March peak on this page is almost always that.
The administrative outlines are generalized to a few hundred metres. A detection falling right on a boundary may therefore be counted on the neighbouring side. For a count of hot pixels the difference is immaterial; for a question of jurisdiction, use the official source.
Data sources
Archive built on July 31, 2026, covering 2020 to 2026.