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Wildfires in Lorcha/l'Orxa

Lorcha/l'Orxa, Spain, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2023: 237 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 27 Low 24° · 24 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 95 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 15° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 11° · 96 % · 27 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

237
hectares burned
7.5 %
of its area
1
fires
32
km²

How many times has Lorcha/l'Orxa burned?

Lorcha/l'Orxa has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2023. The most recent: Montitxelvo fire, November 2023, with 237 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
237
cumulative ha
2 Nov 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 Lorcha/l'Orxa

  1. 237 ha Montitxelvo fire, November 2023 7.5% of the municipality · 2,356 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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