Wildfires in AlmeriaAlmería
Almeria, Spain: 16 fires with a page have entered 28 of its 103 municipalities since 2016, burning 15,262 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bédar in July 2026, with 5,409 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).
Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 15,262ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.7%
- 8,780 km²
- fires
- 16
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 28
- of 103
- Largest fire
- 5,409ha
- Bédar · July 2026
- Inhabitants
- 560,860
- 27.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Low 20° · 14 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 21° · 24 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 20° · 28 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 17° · 36 % · 30 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 16° · 57 % · 29 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 18° · 36 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 17° · 38 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 1 Low 18° · 42 % · 26 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Bédar 953 inhabitants 3,406 ha · 73 %
- Lubrín 1,434 inhabitants 2,534 ha · 18 %
- Níjar 33,319 inhabitants 1,597 ha · 2.7 %
- Almería 1,421 ha · 4.8 %
- Castro de Filabres 101 inhabitants 885 ha · 30 %
- Berja 13,120 inhabitants 716 ha · 3.8 %
- Los Gallardos 696 ha · 20 %
- Huércal de Almería 18,660 inhabitants 636 ha · 30 %
- Benahadux 4,901 inhabitants 572 ha · 35 %
- Huécija 526 inhabitants 508 ha · 27 %
- Gádor 3,130 inhabitants 480 ha · 5.5 %
- Terque 345 ha · 22 %
What burns in the region
- Sclerophyllous scrub56 %
- Other natural land38 %
- Agricultural areas3.9 %
- Coniferous forest1.8 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland0.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
Largest recorded fires
- 5,409 haBédarJuly 2026 · 2 days
- 1,338 haBenahaduxMay 2025 · 2 days
- 1,183 haTerqueJuly 2019 · 2 days
- 1,116 haEl Jabonero NíjarJune 2024 · 2 days
- 1,095 haNíjarJune 2024 · 1 day
- 957 haCastro de FilabresFebruary 2021 · 1 day
- 916 haLubrínAugust 2025 · 2 days
- 716 haBerjaJanuary 2021 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 6,093 | Bédar 5,409 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 2,660 | Benahadux 1,338 ha |
| 2024 | 4 | 3,126 | El Jabonero 1,116 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 181 | Cantoria 181 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 1,673 | Castro de Filabres 957 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 224 | Turre 224 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,183 | Terque 1,183 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 121 | Felix 121 ha |
All fires in Almeria · 16
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 301 haNacimientoAugust 2026 · 10 days
- 5,409 haBédarJuly 2026 · 2 days
- 383 haHuércal de AlmeríaMay 2026 · 2 days
- 916 haLubrínAugust 2025 · 2 days
- 406 haLubrínJuly 2025 · 3 days
- 1,338 haBenahaduxMay 2025 · 2 days
- 275 haAlmeríaNovember 2024 · 3 days
- 1,095 haNíjarJune 2024 · 1 day
- 1,116 haEl Jabonero NíjarJune 2024 · 2 days
- 640 haAlmeríaFebruary 2024 · 2 days
- 181 haCantoriaMarch 2023 · 1 day
- 957 haCastro de FilabresFebruary 2021 · 1 day
- 716 haBerjaJanuary 2021 · 2 days
- 224 haTurreJune 2020 · 1 day
- 1,183 haTerqueJuly 2019 · 2 days
- 121 haFelixApril 2018 · 1 day
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/El Instituto Nacional de Estadstica (National Institute of Statistics (INE) Data License). 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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