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Wildfires in La Orotava

La Orotava, Spain, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 4,122 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 59 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 82 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 89 % · 29 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 84 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 73 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 45 % · 45 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

4,122
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
3
fires
208
km²

How many times has La Orotava burned?

La Orotava has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Arafo fire, August 2023, with 4,113 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
4,122
cumulative ha
16 Aug 2023
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 La Orotava

  1. 4,113 ha Arafo fire, August 2023 20% of the municipality · 12,052 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 8 ha Los Realejos fire, July 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,846 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 0 ha Arico fire, May 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,052 ha in total · 4 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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