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Wildfires in Encinedo

Encinedo, Spain, has had 12 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 14,057 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 72% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 26 Low 18° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 14° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 15° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 16° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 15° · 41 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 16° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 15° · 27 % · 34 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 14° · 41 % · 28 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

14,057
hectares burned
72 %
of its area
12
fires
195
km²

How many times has Encinedo burned?

Encinedo has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Castrillo de Cabrera fire, 22 March 2026, with 32 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,057 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,379 hectares, 64 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
14,057
cumulative ha
12,379
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 Encinedo

  1. 32 ha Castrillo de Cabrera fire, 22 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 5,034 ha Porto de Sanabria fire, August 2025 26% of the municipality · 25,953 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 254 ha Encinedo fire, April 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 255 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 3 ha Castrillo de Cabrera fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 132 ha Encinedo fire, March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 125 ha Encinedo fire, February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 125 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 111 ha Encinedo fire, December 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 62 ha Benuza fire, March 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 151 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 418 ha Encinedo fire, January 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 743 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 7,109 ha Encinedo fire, August 2017 where it started 36% of the municipality · 10,927 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 4 ha Benuza fire, December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 362 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 773 ha Santa Eulalia de Cabrera fire, September 2016 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,229 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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