Wildfires in Cuenca
Cuenca, Spain: 7 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 238 municipalities since 2016, burning 7,014 hectares inside the region. The largest was Valverdejo in July 2019, with 2,527 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).
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
- 7,014ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.4%
- 17,149 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 11
- of 238
- Largest fire
- 2,527ha
- Valverdejo · July 2019
- Inhabitants
- 189,662
- 37.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Low 16° · 44 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 17° · 28 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 20° · 29 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 22° · 35 % · 17 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 23° · 25 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 40 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 21° · 40 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 21° · 34 % · 25 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Barchín del Hoyo 104 inhabitants 3,266 ha · 50 %
- Campillo de Altobuey 1,312 inhabitants 1,058 ha · 6.1 %
- Gabaldón 146 inhabitants 713 ha · 8.5 %
- Valverdejo 86 inhabitants 471 ha · 14 %
- Víllora 120 inhabitants 468 ha · 6.8 %
- Piqueras del Castillo 36 inhabitants 302 ha · 6.6 %
- Cañamares 457 inhabitants 208 ha · 5.1 %
- Enguídanos 274 inhabitants 197 ha · 1.2 %
- Paracuellos 105 inhabitants 195 ha · 1.6 %
- Fuertescusa 441 inhabitants 136 ha · 2.1 %
- Narboneta 42 inhabitants 0 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest40 %
- Mixed forest22 %
- Other natural land15 %
- Agricultural areas9.1 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub7.6 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland6.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Barchín del Hoyo3,266 ha
- 2×Gabaldón713 ha
- 2×Valverdejo471 ha
- 2×Piqueras del Castillo302 ha
- 2×Cañamares208 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,527 haValverdejoJuly 2019 · 2 days
- 2,226 haValverdejoJuly 2024 · 2 days
- 1,058 haCampillo de AltobueyJuly 2017 · 2 days
- 468 haVílloraJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 392 haParacuellosOctober 2016 · 1 day
- 235 haFuertescusaAugust 2022 · 2 days
- 109 haCañamaresAugust 2017 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 2,226 | Valverdejo 2,226 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 235 | Fuertescusa 235 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 468 | Víllora 468 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2,527 | Valverdejo 2,527 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 1,167 | Campillo de Altobuey 1,058 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 392 | Paracuellos 392 ha |
All fires in Cuenca · 7
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).