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Wildfires in Community of Madrid
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 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 724 km² of Community of Madrid at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 81 km², ranking 21st 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 2019, with 140 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 41 km². The 2021–2025 average is 16% 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.
June, July and August together hold 42% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 August 2012, with detections in 33 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 724 km² with at least one detection, 9.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 577 | 80% |
| 2 years | 79 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 38 | 5.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 22 | 3.0% |
| 11 years or more | 8.5 | 1.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 40.25, -3.25 and holds 49% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 120 | 403 |
| 2013 | 125 | 261 |
| 2014 | 59 | 176 |
| 2015 | 73 | 244 |
| 2016 | 60 | 243 |
| 2017 | 76 | 288 |
| 2018 | 58 | 364 |
| 2019 | 140 | 637 |
| 2020 | 68 | 367 |
| 2021 | 85 | 467 |
| 2022 | 69 | 379 |
| 2023 | 41 | 362 |
| 2024 | 87 | 325 |
| 2025 | 83 | 386 |
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.