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Wildfires in Cantabria
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 1,830 km² of Cantabria at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 246 km², ranking 6th 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 442 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 109 km². The 2021–2025 average is 22% lower than 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.
February, March and April together hold 51% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 December 2015, with detections in 111 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,830 km² with at least one detection, 23% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,030 | 56% |
| 2 years | 395 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 373 | 20% |
| 6 to 10 years | 35 | 1.9% |
| 11 years or more | 4.5 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 43.25, -3.75 and holds 65% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 366 | 635 |
| 2013 | 150 | 328 |
| 2014 | 343 | 613 |
| 2015 | 389 | 626 |
| 2016 | 109 | 262 |
| 2017 | 442 | 730 |
| 2018 | 121 | 293 |
| 2019 | 322 | 478 |
| 2020 | 151 | 287 |
| 2021 | 136 | 283 |
| 2022 | 245 | 339 |
| 2023 | 276 | 367 |
| 2024 | 170 | 241 |
| 2025 | 230 | 364 |
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
- Cáceres206 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.