Wildfires in Córdoba
Córdoba, Spain: 17 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 75 municipalities since 2016, burning 7,970 hectares inside the region. The largest was Obejo in July 2024, with 2,294 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).
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
- 7,970ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 13,801 km²
- fires
- 17
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 13
- of 75
- Largest fire
- 2,294ha
- Obejo · July 2024
- Inhabitants
- 735,652
- 10.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Moderate 24° · 30 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 25° · 25 % · 22 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 22° · 39 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 28 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 41 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 25° · 37 % · 20 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 40 % · 21 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 24° · 42 % · 21 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Obejo 2,101 inhabitants 3,806 ha · 18 %
- Belalcázar 3,093 inhabitants 1,397 ha · 3.9 %
- Alcaracejos 1,512 inhabitants 545 ha · 3.1 %
- Córdoba 323,262 inhabitants 372 ha · 0.3 %
- Cabra 19,995 inhabitants 358 ha · 1.6 %
- Hinojosa del Duque 6,534 inhabitants 340 ha · 0.6 %
- Valsequillo 351 inhabitants 276 ha · 2.3 %
- Villanueva del Rey 1,031 inhabitants 245 ha · 1.1 %
- Los Blázquez 619 inhabitants 244 ha · 2.4 %
- Belmez 2,833 inhabitants 210 ha · 1.0 %
- Villaharta 630 inhabitants 105 ha · 8.8 %
- Carcabuey 2,302 inhabitants 63 ha · 0.8 %
What burns in the region
- Sclerophyllous scrub48 %
- Agricultural areas26 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland8.9 %
- Other natural land8.7 %
- Broadleaved forest8.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 4×Obejo3,806 ha
- 2×Belalcázar1,397 ha
- 2×Córdoba372 ha
- 2×Cabra358 ha
- 2×Hinojosa del Duque340 ha
- 2×Valsequillo276 ha
- 2×Los Blázquez244 ha
- 2×Carcabuey63 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,294 haObejoJuly 2024 · 3 days
- 1,069 haBelalcázarJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 625 haObejoJune 2017 · 3 days
- 560 haObejoJune 2026 · 2 days of 612 ha in total
- 545 haAlcaracejosAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 454 haVillanueva del ReyAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 335 haHinojosa del DuqueJuly 2024 · 3 days
- 329 haBelalcázarJuly 2021 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 1,085 | Obejo 560 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 454 | Villanueva del Rey 454 ha |
| 2024 | 4 | 3,001 | Obejo 2,294 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 1,395 | Belalcázar 1,069 ha |
| 2021 | 5 | 1,409 | Alcaracejos 545 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 625 | Obejo 625 ha |
All fires in Córdoba · 17
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 186 haCórdobaJuly 2026 · 2 days
- 152 haLos BlázquezJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 186 haCórdobaJune 2026 · 1 day
- 560 haObejoJune 2026 · 2 days of 612 ha in total
- 454 haVillanueva del ReyAugust 2025 · 1 day
- 104 haPeraleda del ZaucejoSeptember 2024 · 2 days of 206 ha in total
- 335 haHinojosa del DuqueJuly 2024 · 3 days
- 2,294 haObejoJuly 2024 · 3 days
- 268 haValsequilloJuly 2024 · 1 day
- 326 haObejoOctober 2022 · 1 day
- 1,069 haBelalcázarJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 545 haAlcaracejosAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 115 haVillahartaAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 267 haCabra31 July 2021 · 1 day
- 329 haBelalcázarJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 154 haCabra26 July 2021 · 1 day
- 625 haObejoJune 2017 · 3 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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