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Wildfires in Vélez de Benaudalla

Vélez de Benaudalla, Spain, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 276 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% 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. Mon 2 Low 22° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 20° · 62 % · 29 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 21° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Low 23° · 58 % · 44 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

276
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
2
fires
79
km²

How many times has Vélez de Benaudalla burned?

Vélez de Benaudalla has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Los Guájares fire, September 2022, with 241 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
276
cumulative ha
8 Sept 2022
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 Vélez de Benaudalla

  1. 241 ha Los Guájares fire, September 2022 3.0% of the municipality · 5,454 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 35 ha Los Guájares fire, March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 139 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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