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Wildfires in Badajoz

Badajoz, Spain: 53 fires with a page have entered 61 of its 165 municipalities since 2016, burning 27,177 hectares inside the region. The largest was Llerena in August 2025, with 5,838 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 5 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
27,177ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.2%
21,805 km²
fires
53
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
61
of 165
Largest fire
5,838ha
Llerena · August 2025
Inhabitants
584,793
46.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Moderate 20° · 47 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 22° · 27 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 29 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 27° · 18 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 24 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 26 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 26° · 32 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 37 % · 18 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Llerena 5,642 inhabitants 3,629 ha · 22 %
  2. Alburquerque 4,928 inhabitants 2,908 ha · 4.0 %
  3. Valencia de las Torres 486 inhabitants 1,658 ha · 7.9 %
  4. Castilblanco 820 inhabitants 1,526 ha · 12 %
  5. Montemolín 1,231 inhabitants 1,479 ha · 7.3 %
  6. Campanario 4,702 inhabitants 1,320 ha · 5.1 %
  7. Badajoz 150,209 inhabitants 1,279 ha · 0.9 %
  8. Puebla del Maestre 653 inhabitants 948 ha · 12 %
  9. Oliva de Mérida 1,660 inhabitants 931 ha · 3.7 %
  10. Mérida 1,232 inhabitants 912 ha · 1.1 %
  11. Valdecaballeros 1,036 inhabitants 884 ha · 9.7 %
  12. Fuente de Cantos 4,583 inhabitants 859 ha · 3.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas48 %
  • Other natural land21 %
  • Broadleaved forest11 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub8.9 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland8.2 %
  • Coniferous forest1.9 %
  • Other land cover0.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
2026165,787 Valencia de las Torres 1,001 ha
20251814,635 Llerena 5,838 ha
2024104,006 Palomas 1,232 ha
20223908 Fuente del Maestre 446 ha
202131,540 Alburquerque 810 ha
20202429 Maguilla 253 ha
20191137 Zafra 137 ha
20181181 Calzadilla de los Barros 181 ha
20173797 Mérida 470 ha
20161130 Badajoz 130 ha

All fires in Badajoz · 58

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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).