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Wildfires in Málaga
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 886 km² of Málaga at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 73 km², ranking 25th 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 2012, with 211 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 27 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.
July, August and September together hold 43% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 August 2012, with detections in 153 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 886 km² with at least one detection, 1.6% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 783 | 88% |
| 2 years | 90 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 12 | 1.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 2.0 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.75, -4.25 and holds 41% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 211 | 217 |
| 2013 | 64 | 81 |
| 2014 | 56 | 101 |
| 2015 | 50 | 105 |
| 2016 | 43 | 90 |
| 2017 | 56 | 99 |
| 2018 | 37 | 77 |
| 2019 | 54 | 91 |
| 2020 | 52 | 119 |
| 2021 | 163 | 272 |
| 2022 | 145 | 255 |
| 2023 | 34 | 95 |
| 2024 | 27 | 75 |
| 2025 | 40 | 79 |
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
- Granada71 km
- Cádiz105 km
- Córdoba119 km
- Seville144 km
- Tangier-Tetouan, Morocco214 km
- Ciudad Real222 km