Burned area
satellite only637ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 26 February 2024
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No official record is matched to this page to compare it with.
ES · Spain · –
Almería fire, February 2024 Almería, Enix, Gádor
Out · last detection 9 Feb 2024, 02:01 UTC
The fire started on 9 February 2024 in Almería, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 637 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 9th largest in Almeria since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 16 in Spain in 2024, of 82.
The power measured by the satellite is low (4.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only2days
9 Feb 2024 to 10 Feb 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 9 Feb 2024, 02:01 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only9 Feb 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 9 Feb 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only6
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 4 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 9 Feb 2024 – 10 Feb 2024
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only23MW
Total radiative power on 9 February 2024; hotspots that day: 6.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 9 Feb 2024
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model3.1FWI · very low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 19.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 9 Feb 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model16.1°C · 27% RH
High of 16.1 °C and minimum humidity of 27% on 9 February 2024; gusts of 83 km/h on 9 February 2024.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 9 Feb 2024 – 10 Feb 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 637 ha
- Dates
- 9 Feb 2024 – 10 Feb 2024
- Name
- Almería
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/almeria-2024-02?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire almeria-2024-02.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-09 | 6 | 23 | 16.1 | 11.4 | 27 | 20.9 | 83.2 | 5.2 | 3.1 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2024-02-10 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9.3 | 37 | 20.2 | 57.6 | 0 | 6.8 | bajo | 1 |
| 2024-02-11 | 0 | 0 | 14.1 | 6.5 | 33 | 10.1 | 36 | 0 | 7.9 | bajo | 0 |
| 2024-02-12 | 0 | 0 | 23.4 | 10.8 | 29 | 14 | 47.2 | 0 | 14 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-02-13 | 0 | 0 | 21.4 | 12 | 43 | 6.8 | 23.4 | 0 | 11.2 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-02-14 | 0 | 0 | 21.4 | 13.8 | 39 | 12.4 | 39.2 | 0 | 13.5 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-02-15 | 0 | 0 | 19.6 | 12.4 | 38 | 11.6 | 49 | 0.2 | 13.5 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-02-16 | 0 | 0 | 18.4 | 10.6 | 34 | 9.7 | 32 | 0 | 13 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-02-17 | 0 | 0 | 18.7 | 8.2 | 29 | 8.5 | 32.4 | 0 | 13.1 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-02-18 | 0 | 0 | 19.1 | 6.7 | 37 | 8.4 | 31.7 | 0 | 13.3 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-02-19 | 0 | 0 | 20.4 | 8 | 39 | 5.9 | 25.6 | 0 | 12.6 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-02-20 | 0 | 0 | 20.9 | 8.6 | 40 | 5.7 | 29.2 | 0 | 12.6 | moderado | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 637ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 9 Feb 2024 – 10 Feb 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 9 Feb
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 6
- in a single hotspot: 4 MW
- Danger at start
- 3
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 23MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
9 Feb10 Feb
How it evolved, day by day
9 Feb 2024 · 23 MW · 6
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
16°high
83km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity
It had gone 19 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Almería where it started394 ha reached on 9 Feb1.3 %
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Enix 612 inhabitants · 4.5 km from the centre140 ha2.1 %
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Gádor 3,130 inhabitants · 6.9 km from the centre106 ha1.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Sclerophyllous scrub61 %
- Other natural land39 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- LIC Sierras de Gádor y Enix ES6110008
Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
Started with Strong wind: 24 % of the area in Spain
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Feb | 16.1 °C | 27 % | 83 km/h | 5.2 mm | Very low 3 |
| 10 Feb | 16.0 °C | 37 % | 58 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 11 Feb after | 14.1 °C | 33 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 12 Feb after | 23.4 °C | 29 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 13 Feb after | 21.4 °C | 43 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 14 Feb after | 21.4 °C | 39 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 15 Feb after | 19.6 °C | 38 % | 49 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 16 Feb after | 18.4 °C | 34 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 17 Feb after | 18.7 °C | 29 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 18 Feb after | 19.1 °C | 37 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 19 Feb after | 20.4 °C | 39 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 20 Feb after | 20.9 °C | 40 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 2 Feb 2024
After · 17 Feb 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 9 February 2024 the air beside the fire reached 29 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak29 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1077 µg/m³
Optical depth0.34
WHO 15
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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 6Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Almería fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 9 February 2024 and 10 February 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 637 hectares (6.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Almería (394 ha, 1.3 %); Enix (140 ha, 2.1 %); Gádor (106 ha, 1.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 4.5 km of the centre of Enix, the closest of the areas it touched. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 16.1 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 83 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 7, class Low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Spain (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 112 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 6 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.