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Wildfires in Granada

Granada, Spain: 12 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 172 municipalities since 2016, burning 8,487 hectares inside the region. The largest was Los Guájares in September 2022, with 5,465 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
8,487ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.7%
12,658 km²
fires
12
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
18
of 172
Largest fire
5,465ha
Los Guájares · September 2022
Inhabitants
822,530
10.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Low 20° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Low 18° · 39 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Low 20° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 23° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 22° · 22 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Low 20° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Low 21° · 39 % · 26 km/h

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. Los Guájares 1,081 inhabitants 2,451 ha · 27 %
  2. El Pinar 867 inhabitants 1,546 ha · 41 %
  3. Albuñuelas 794 inhabitants 811 ha · 5.8 %
  4. Almuñécar 27,544 inhabitants 697 ha · 8.3 %
  5. El Valle 941 inhabitants 672 ha · 26 %
  6. Almegíjar 327 inhabitants 461 ha · 16 %
  7. Atarfe 20,914 inhabitants 451 ha · 9.5 %
  8. Pinos Puente 314 ha · 3.4 %
  9. Vélez de Benaudalla 3,108 inhabitants 276 ha · 3.5 %
  10. La Taha 777 inhabitants 274 ha · 11 %
  11. Padul 9,667 inhabitants 166 ha · 1.9 %
  12. Turón 203 inhabitants 159 ha · 2.8 %

What burns in the region

  • Sclerophyllous scrub45 %
  • Coniferous forest28 %
  • Agricultural areas12 %
  • Other natural land8.7 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland5.0 %
  • Mixed forest1.2 %

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
20263482 Pinos Puente 168 ha
20251101 Benamaurel 101 ha
202431,219 Almuñécar 697 ha
202245,976 Los Guájares 5,465 ha
20202877 Almegíjar 738 ha

All fires in Granada · 13

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).