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Wildfires in Estepona

Estepona, Spain, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 4,834 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Sat 24 Low 22° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 22° · 31 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 23° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 21° · 35 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 23° · 37 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 22° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 21° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 21° · 65 % · 21 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

4,834
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
3
fires
139
km²

How many times has Estepona burned?

Estepona has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Pujerra fire, June 2022, with 255 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
4,834
cumulative ha
8 Jun 2022
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 Estepona

  1. 255 ha Pujerra fire, June 2022 1.8% of the municipality · 5,042 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 4,252 ha Sierra Bermeja fire, September 2021 31% of the municipality · 9,296 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 327 ha Estepona fire, August 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 326 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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