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Wildfires in Barcelona
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 384 km² of Barcelona at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 41 km², ranking 39th of 52 regions of Spain.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2017, with 66 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 19 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
June, July and August together hold 33% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 17 July 2022, with detections in 24 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 384 km² with at least one detection, 5.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 329 | 86% |
| 2 years | 32 | 8.5% |
| 3 to 5 years | 11 | 2.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.7 | 0.7% |
| 11 years or more | 8.3 | 2.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 41.25, 1.75 and holds 78% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 57 | 508 |
| 2013 | 45 | 422 |
| 2014 | 31 | 489 |
| 2015 | 37 | 450 |
| 2016 | 45 | 496 |
| 2017 | 66 | 557 |
| 2018 | 19 | 508 |
| 2019 | 30 | 543 |
| 2020 | 35 | 434 |
| 2021 | 56 | 466 |
| 2022 | 56 | 522 |
| 2023 | 42 | 480 |
| 2024 | 25 | 424 |
| 2025 | 34 | 340 |
Other regions of Spain
- Seville430 km² in an average year
- Asturias392 km² in an average year
- Badajoz388 km² in an average year
- León295 km² in an average year
- Ourense267 km² in an average year
- Cantabria246 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Lleida100 km
- Tarragona100 km
- Huesca136 km
- Ariège, France166 km
- Pyrénées-Orientales, France186 km
- Aude, France237 km