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Wildfires in Colmenar Viejo

Colmenar Viejo, Spain, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2024: 486 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 2 Low 17° · 25 % · 28 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 11° · 34 % · 34 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Low 11° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Low 12° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 13° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 12° · 81 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 13° · 89 % · 36 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

486
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
2
fires
183
km²

How many times has Colmenar Viejo burned?

Colmenar Viejo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Tres Cantos fire, August 2025, with 69 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 486 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 437 hectares, 2.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
486
cumulative ha
437
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Spain →

Fires that entered Colmenar Viejo

  1. 69 ha Tres Cantos fire, August 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 2,037 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 417 ha Colmenar Viejo fire, August 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 535 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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