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Wildfires in MalagaMálaga

Malaga, Spain: 18 fires with a page have entered 20 of its 103 municipalities since 2016, burning 19,354 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sierra Bermeja in September 2021, with 9,317 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
19,354ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.6%
7,327 km²
fires
18
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
20
of 103
Largest fire
9,317ha
Sierra Bermeja · September 2021
Inhabitants
1,765,601
11.0 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 23° · 38 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 23° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 26° · 21 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 25° · 29 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 22° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 55 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 23° · 59 % · 30 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. Estepona 79,621 inhabitants 4,834 ha · 35 %
  2. Benahavís 9,472 inhabitants 2,513 ha · 17 %
  3. Júzcar 208 inhabitants 2,042 ha · 60 %
  4. Jubrique 585 inhabitants 1,656 ha · 42 %
  5. Genalguacil 352 inhabitants 1,518 ha · 48 %
  6. Casares 9,009 inhabitants 1,458 ha · 9.0 %
  7. Pujerra 285 inhabitants 1,421 ha · 58 %
  8. Alhaurín el Grande 27,552 inhabitants 802 ha · 11 %
  9. Alhaurín de la Torre 45,066 inhabitants 786 ha · 9.5 %
  10. Mijas 95,104 inhabitants 687 ha · 4.6 %
  11. Igualeja 733 inhabitants 445 ha · 10 %
  12. Faraján 285 inhabitants 330 ha · 16 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest37 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub34 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland8.3 %
  • Other natural land7.8 %
  • Agricultural areas5.2 %
  • Mixed forest4.1 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.4 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.8 %

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
202631,071 Igualeja 543 ha
20253386 Montecorto 164 ha
202410 Almuñécar 0 ha
20231220 Mijas 220 ha
202237,105 Pujerra 5,051 ha
202139,891 Sierra Bermeja 9,317 ha
20202231 Olvera 118 ha
20191327 Estepona 327 ha
20181123 Casares 123 ha

All fires in Malaga · 18

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).