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Wildfires in León

León, Spain: 96 fires with a page have entered 73 of its 216 municipalities since 2016, burning 154,827 hectares inside the region. The largest was Molezuelas de la Carballeda in August 2025, with 28,222 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.

hectares burned
154,827ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.9%
15,588 km²
fires
96
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
73
of 216
Largest fire
28,222ha
Molezuelas de la Carballeda · August 2025
Inhabitants
376,815
410.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 10° · 43 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 14° · 34 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 17° · 53 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 17° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 18° · 29 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 16° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 16° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 18° · 37 % · 21 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Boca de Huérgano 412 inhabitants 15,810 ha · 54 %
  2. Encinedo 621 inhabitants 14,057 ha · 72 %
  3. Lucillo 360 inhabitants 12,112 ha · 73 %
  4. Castrocalbón 898 inhabitants 8,851 ha · 100 %
  5. Ponferrada 672 inhabitants 8,472 ha · 30 %
  6. Benuza 457 inhabitants 7,828 ha · 45 %
  7. Castrillo de Cabrera 100 inhabitants 6,727 ha · 58 %
  8. Truchas 371 inhabitants 5,810 ha · 19 %
  9. Páramo del Sil 5,247 ha · 28 %
  10. Oencia 267 inhabitants 5,095 ha · 52 %
  11. Quintana y Congosto 402 inhabitants 4,997 ha · 57 %
  12. Peranzanes 276 inhabitants 4,417 ha · 38 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land60 %
  • Broadleaved forest13 %
  • Agricultural areas9.5 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland7.7 %
  • Coniferous forest4.2 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub3.6 %
  • Mixed forest1.4 %

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
2026239,860 Valdesamario 1,967 ha
202519111,214 Molezuelas de la Carballeda 28,222 ha
20242743 Villagatón 578 ha
20235885 Gradefes 286 ha
202297,392 Luyego 3,620 ha
202131,041 Luyego 797 ha
201981,619 Encinedo 418 ha
20183687 Santa Colomba de Curueño 492 ha
20171717,113 Encinedo 10,891 ha
201674,272 Peranzanes 2,435 ha

All fires in León · 96

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).