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Wildfires in Garganta la Olla

Garganta la Olla, Spain, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,550 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Fri 6 Moderate 17° · 29 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Low 19° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Moderate 20° · 50 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 85 % · 42 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 87 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 88 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 17° · 75 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 17° · 78 % · 40 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Garganta la Olla: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,550
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
5
fires
48
km²

How many times has Garganta la Olla burned?

Garganta la Olla has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Garganta la Olla fire, September 2025, with 196 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,550 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,286 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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5
fires
5
years with fire
1,550
cumulative ha
1,286
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 Garganta la Olla

  1. 196 ha Garganta la Olla fire, September 2025 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 269 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 919 ha Garganta la Olla fire, August 2020 where it started 19% of the municipality · 4,245 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 242 ha Garganta la Olla fire, July 2019 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 242 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 15 ha Cabezuela del Valle fire, August 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 151 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 179 ha Garganta la Olla fire, September 2016 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 479 ha in total · 3 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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