La Orotava fire, August 2023
The fire started on 16 August 2023 in La Orotava, Spain, and burned for 12 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 12,052 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 12 municipalities.
Burnt area
12,052
hectares
Duration
12
days
Municipalities hit
12
Started on
16 Aug
2023
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Orotava where it started | 4,118 | 19.8 % | |
| Candelaria | 1,725 | 34.7 % | |
| Arafo | 1,596 | 46.3 % | |
| Los Realejos | 1,084 | 19.1 % | |
| Güímar | 828 | 8.0 % | |
| Santa Úrsula | 823 | 36.7 % | |
| La Victoria de Acentejo | 789 | 43.3 % | |
| El Rosario | 455 | 11.6 % | |
| La Matanza de Acentejo | 260 | 18.5 % | |
| El Sauzal | 236 | 12.8 % | |
| Tacoronte | 119 | 4.0 % | |
| Fasnia | 74 | 1.6 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Coniferous forest
70.2 %
Other natural land
20.9 %
Mixed forest
3.1 %
Broadleaved forest
2.4 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
1.9 %
Agricultural areas
1.5 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 94.1 %