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Wildfires in Don Benito

Don Benito, Spain, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2025: 566 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Moderate 22° · 30 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 22° · 21 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 22° · 30 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 27° · 21 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 21° · 35 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 24° · 32 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 35 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 30 % · 20 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

566
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
3
fires
562
km²

How many times has Don Benito burned?

Don Benito has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Don Benito fire, August 2026, with 103 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
566
cumulative ha
12 Aug 2026
most recent

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 Don Benito

  1. 266 ha Don Benito fire, October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 103 ha Don Benito fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 157 ha Don Benito fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 156 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 307 ha Don Benito fire, June 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 307 ha in total · 1 day

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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