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Wildfires in La Rioja
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 291 km² of La Rioja at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 25 km², ranking 45th 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 42 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 14 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.
January, February and March together hold 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 October 2019, with detections in 5 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 291 km² with at least one detection, 3.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 252 | 87% |
| 2 years | 28 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 10 | 3.4% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.9 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.25, -1.75 and holds 41% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | 26 |
| 2013 | 14 | 15 |
| 2014 | 23 | 28 |
| 2015 | 30 | 36 |
| 2016 | 32 | 38 |
| 2017 | 42 | 51 |
| 2018 | 23 | 26 |
| 2019 | 25 | 28 |
| 2020 | 20 | 23 |
| 2021 | 31 | 35 |
| 2022 | 29 | 36 |
| 2023 | 18 | 21 |
| 2024 | 21 | 23 |
| 2025 | 18 | 21 |
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.