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Wildfires in Riotuerto

Riotuerto, Spain, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 520 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 40 % · 50 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 69 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 79 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 13° · 72 % · 25 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

520
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
3
fires
30
km²

How many times has Riotuerto burned?

Riotuerto has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Miera fire, 24 February 2026, with 132 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 520 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 416 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
520
cumulative ha
416
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 Riotuerto

  1. 132 ha Miera fire, 24 February 2026 4.3% of the municipality · 296 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 283 ha Riotuerto fire, February 2021 where it started 9.3% of the municipality · 344 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 105 ha Riotuerto fire, February 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 110 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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