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Wildfires in Valsequillo de Gran Canaria

Valsequillo de Gran Canaria, Spain, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 212 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Wed 28 Low 27° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 75 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 53 % · 38 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 76 % · 22 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

212
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
2
fires
39
km²

How many times has Valsequillo de Gran Canaria burned?

Valsequillo de Gran Canaria has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2023. The most recent: Vega de San Mateo fire, July 2023, with 157 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 212 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 157 hectares, 4.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
212
cumulative ha
157
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 Valsequillo de Gran Canaria

  1. 157 ha Vega de San Mateo fire, July 2023 4.0% of the municipality · 408 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 56 ha Tejeda fire, September 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 2 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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