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Wildfires in Mijas

Mijas, Spain, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 687 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% 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. Fri 23 Low 23° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 23° · 46 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 23° · 40 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 24° · 38 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 22° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 22° · 58 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 67 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 65 % · 29 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

687
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
3
fires
149
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mijas

  1. 220 ha Mijas fire, November 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 219 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 107 ha Mijas fire, July 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 360 ha Sierra de Mijas fire, July 2022 2.4% of the municipality · 1,944 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).