Wildfires in Cádiz
Cádiz, Spain: 16 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 43 municipalities since 2016, burning 4,190 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tarifa in June 2024, with 579 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).
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
- 4,190ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 7,456 km²
- fires
- 16
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 43
- Largest fire
- 579ha
- Tarifa · June 2024
- Inhabitants
- 1,029,807
- 4.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Moderate 24° · 36 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 24° · 33 % · 24 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 26° · 35 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 21° · 48 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 25° · 44 % · 41 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 51 % · 52 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 25° · 52 % · 41 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 24° · 42 % · 44 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Tarifa 18,613 inhabitants 1,856 ha · 4.4 %
- Olvera 7,842 inhabitants 635 ha · 3.3 %
- San Roque 34,310 inhabitants 540 ha · 3.7 %
- Algeciras 126,589 inhabitants 351 ha · 4.1 %
- La Línea de la Concepción 64,499 inhabitants 323 ha · 17 %
- Grazalema 1,977 inhabitants 243 ha · 2.0 %
- Jerez de la Frontera 241 ha · 0.2 %
- Alcalá del Valle 4,864 inhabitants 2 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Sclerophyllous scrub51 %
- Agricultural areas27 %
- Broadleaved forest11 %
- Other natural land4.4 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland3.5 %
- Artificial surfaces1.4 %
- Mixed forest1.1 %
- Coniferous forest0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 6×Tarifa1,856 ha
- 4×San Roque540 ha
- 3×La Línea de la Concepción323 ha
- 2×Olvera635 ha
- 2×Algeciras351 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 579 haTarifaJune 2024 · 3 days
- 447 haSan RoqueJuly 2016 · 2 days
- 392 haOlveraAugust 2020 · 2 days of 509 ha in total
- 366 haTarifa11 August 2025 · 2 days
- 278 haTarifa5 August 2025 · 2 days
- 273 haTarifaJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 244 haOlveraJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 243 haGrazalemaJuly 2026 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Cádiz · 16
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 243 haGrazalemaJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 241 haJerez de la FronteraAugust 2025 · 2 days
- 366 haTarifa11 August 2025 · 2 days
- 278 haTarifa5 August 2025 · 2 days
- 273 haTarifaJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 579 haTarifaJune 2024 · 3 days
- 163 haAlgecirasSeptember 2023 · 1 day
- 158 haLa Línea de la ConcepciónAugust 2023 · 2 days
- 111 haSan RoqueJuly 2022 · 1 day
- 244 haOlveraJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 194 haTarifaAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 146 haLa Línea de la ConcepciónAugust 2021 · 1 day
- 188 haAlgecirasSeptember 2020 · 2 days
- 392 haOlveraAugust 2020 · 2 days of 509 ha in total
- 167 haTarifaAugust 2018 · 2 days
- 447 haSan RoqueJuly 2016 · 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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