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Wildfires in Monterrei

Monterrei, Spain: 12 fires since 2016 burned 13,739 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. 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 16° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 19° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 20° · 45 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 18° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 20° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 20° · 55 % · 24 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

13,739
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
12
fires
119
km²

How many times has Monterrei burned?

Monterrei has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Monterrei fire, August 2025, with 9,992 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,739 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,109 hectares, 85 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
12
fires
6
years with fire
13,739
cumulative ha
10,109
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 Monterrei

  1. 9,992 ha Monterrei fire, August 2025 where it started 84% of the municipality · 24,471 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 89 ha Oímbra fire, 16 July 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 897 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 269 ha Monterrei fire, September 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,420 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,102 ha Monterrei fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 693 ha Monterrei fire, 24 July 2020 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 729 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 63 ha Oímbra fire, August 2018 0.5% of the municipality · 179 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 374 ha Monterrei fire, August 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 374 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 189 ha Monterrei fire, July 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 191 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 356 ha Monterrei fire, September 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 362 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 522 ha Oímbra fire, September 2016 4.4% of the municipality · 1,869 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 5 ha Oímbra fire, August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 492 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 83 ha Oímbra fire, July 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 191 ha in total · 1 day

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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