Wildfires in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain: 8 fires with a page have entered 20 of its 310 municipalities since 2016, burning 4,705 hectares inside the region. The largest was El Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort in July 2022, with 1,637 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
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
- 4,705ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 7,734 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 20
- of 310
- Largest fire
- 1,637ha
- El Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort · July 2022
- Inhabitants
- 5,834,630
- 0.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 19° · 44 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 16° · 59 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 18° · 41 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 21° · 50 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 22° · 49 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 21° · 56 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 19° · 53 % · 24 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 18° · 67 % · 20 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- El Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort 4,193 inhabitants 1,169 ha · 42 %
- Bellprat 69 inhabitants 1,044 ha · 33 %
- La Pobla de Claramunt 2,350 inhabitants 376 ha · 20 %
- Sant Martí de Tous 1,269 inhabitants 295 ha · 7.6 %
- Avinyó 2,322 inhabitants 256 ha · 4.1 %
- Santa Maria de Miralles 144 inhabitants 230 ha · 9.1 %
- Talamanca 209 inhabitants 223 ha · 7.6 %
- Sant Fruitós de Bages 9,333 inhabitants 164 ha · 7.5 %
- Artés 6,225 inhabitants 149 ha · 8.3 %
- Martorell 29,175 inhabitants 133 ha · 10 %
- Vilanova del Camí 12,936 inhabitants 103 ha · 9.9 %
- Sentmenat 9,548 inhabitants 96 ha · 3.4 %
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest51 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub20 %
- Agricultural areas16 %
- Broadleaved forest7.8 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland3.4 %
- Artificial surfaces1.8 %
Largest recorded fires
- 1,637 haEl Pont de Vilomara i RocafortJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 1,568 haSanta Coloma de Queralt BellpratJuly 2021 · 3 days
- 495 haLa Pobla de ClaramuntJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 419 haArtésAugust 2017 · 2 days
- 198 haCastellví de RosanesJuly 2021 · 2 days
- 187 haSentmenatJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 160 haOlivellaJune 2022 · 1 day
- 41 haQuerolJuly 2026 · 1 day of 162 ha in total
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 | 723 | La Pobla de Claramunt 495 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 1,797 | El Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort 1,637 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 1,766 | Santa Coloma de Queralt 1,568 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 419 | Artés 419 ha |
All fires in Barcelona · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 41 haQuerolJuly 2026 · 1 day of 162 ha in total
- 187 haSentmenatJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 495 haLa Pobla de ClaramuntJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 1,637 haEl Pont de Vilomara i RocafortJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 160 haOlivellaJune 2022 · 1 day
- 1,568 haSanta Coloma de Queralt BellpratJuly 2021 · 3 days
- 198 haCastellví de RosanesJuly 2021 · 2 days
- 419 haArtésAugust 2017 · 2 days
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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