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Wildfires in Madrid

Madrid, Spain: 17 fires with a page have entered 34 of its 181 municipalities since 2016, burning 34,861 hectares inside the region. The largest was Burgohondo in July 2026, with 23,696 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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
34,861ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.3%
8,035 km²
fires
17
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
34
of 181
Largest fire
23,696ha
Burgohondo · July 2026
Inhabitants
6,823,817
5.1 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 20° · 26 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 19° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 22° · 29 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 23° · 27 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 23° · 23 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 22° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 22° · 43 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 23° · 30 % · 15 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. San Martín de Valdeiglesias 9,324 inhabitants 7,649 ha · 66 %
  2. Navas del Rey 3,420 inhabitants 4,536 ha · 90 %
  3. Robledo de Chavela 4,818 inhabitants 3,813 ha · 40 %
  4. Villa del Prado 7,743 inhabitants 3,662 ha · 47 %
  5. Cadalso de los Vidrios 3,372 inhabitants 2,065 ha · 43 %
  6. Colmenar del Arroyo 1,720 ha · 35 %
  7. Fresnedillas de la Oliva 1,883 inhabitants 1,251 ha · 44 %
  8. Madrid 3,506,730 inhabitants 1,216 ha · 2.0 %
  9. Villamanta 2,899 inhabitants 980 ha · 16 %
  10. Navalcarnero 33,331 inhabitants 793 ha · 7.8 %
  11. Tres Cantos 54,592 inhabitants 754 ha · 20 %
  12. Loeches 9,261 inhabitants 739 ha · 17 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest22 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub20 %
  • Coniferous forest17 %
  • Agricultural areas13 %
  • Other natural land11 %
  • Broadleaved forest10 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland5.7 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.0 %

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
2026324,855 Burgohondo 23,696 ha
202544,201 Tres Cantos 2,041 ha
202431,499 Loeches 757 ha
20221264 Aranjuez 264 ha
202011,114 Robledo de Chavela 1,114 ha
201942,772 Cadalso de los Vidrios 2,359 ha
20161156 Aranjuez 156 ha

All fires in Madrid · 17

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).

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