Wildfires in Palmas, Las
Palmas, Las, Spain: 6 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 33 municipalities since 2016, burning 12,847 hectares inside the region. The largest was Artenara in 17 August 2019, with 8,900 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
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
- 12,847ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.2%
- 4,062 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 16
- of 33
- Largest fire
- 8,900ha
- Artenara · 17 August 2019
- Inhabitants
- 1,106,562
- 11.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Low 24° · 84 % · 55 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 25° · 79 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 24° · 80 % · 37 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 23° · 84 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 23° · 78 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 23° · 82 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 24° · 78 % · 41 km/h
- Sun 1 Low 25° · 74 % · 41 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Artenara 1,024 inhabitants 4,076 ha · 61 %
- Tejeda 1,806 inhabitants 2,064 ha · 20 %
- Gáldar 25,108 inhabitants 1,594 ha · 25 %
- Agaete 5,683 inhabitants 1,159 ha · 26 %
- Vega de San Mateo 7,899 inhabitants 1,124 ha · 29 %
- Valleseco 3,775 inhabitants 814 ha · 36 %
- Moya 8,007 inhabitants 657 ha · 20 %
- La Aldea de San Nicolás 7,401 inhabitants 376 ha · 3.0 %
- San Bartolomé de Tirajana 54,291 inhabitants 230 ha · 0.7 %
- Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria 14,311 inhabitants 221 ha · 5.2 %
- Valsequillo de Gran Canaria 9,869 inhabitants 212 ha · 5.5 %
- Ingenio 32,905 inhabitants 147 ha · 3.7 %
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest41 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub35 %
- Other natural land11 %
- Agricultural areas7.9 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland4.1 %
- Broadleaved forest0.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×Tejeda2,064 ha
- 3×Vega de San Mateo1,124 ha
- 2×Artenara4,076 ha
- 2×Gáldar1,594 ha
- 2×Valleseco814 ha
- 2×Moya657 ha
- 2×San Bartolomé de Tirajana230 ha
- 2×Valsequillo de Gran Canaria212 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 8,900 haArtenara17 August 2019 · 6 days
- 1,567 haTejedaSeptember 2017 · 2 days
- 1,269 haArtenara10 August 2019 · 3 days
- 562 haLa Aldea de San NicolásFebruary 2020 · 4 days
- 409 haVega de San MateoJuly 2023 · 2 days
- 140 haIngenioAugust 2019 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 409 | Vega de San Mateo 409 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 562 | La Aldea de San Nicolás 562 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 10,309 | Artenara 8,900 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,567 | Tejeda 1,567 ha |
All fires in Palmas, Las · 6
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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