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Wildfires in Tarragona
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 540 km² of Tarragona at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 54 km², ranking 34th 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 96 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 42 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.4% 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.
May, June and July together hold 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 July 2025, with detections in 48 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 540 km² with at least one detection, 5.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 464 | 86% |
| 2 years | 50 | 9.2% |
| 3 to 5 years | 14 | 2.6% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5.5 | 1.0% |
| 11 years or more | 7.4 | 1.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 40.75, 0.75 and holds 47% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 96 | 272 |
| 2013 | 48 | 133 |
| 2014 | 43 | 178 |
| 2015 | 47 | 192 |
| 2016 | 42 | 202 |
| 2017 | 50 | 192 |
| 2018 | 48 | 196 |
| 2019 | 76 | 201 |
| 2020 | 48 | 155 |
| 2021 | 42 | 172 |
| 2022 | 45 | 127 |
| 2023 | 46 | 96 |
| 2024 | 47 | 208 |
| 2025 | 81 | 254 |
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.