What you'll see on the map
Current status, color-coded
Every wildfire shown as active, stabilized, controlled or extinguished, updated as official bulletins change.
Satellite-confirmed burn areas
EFFIS/Copernicus outlines of the real burned area, shown alongside — not instead of — the official figures.
All 17 regions of Spain
Search by province or municipality, or browse the national view — including the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza) and the Canary Islands.
Today, or the full season
Switch between what's active right now and the full campaign history to see how a fire has progressed.
Three sources, cross-checked against each other
Spain has no single national feed of wildfire data — each region publishes its own bulletins, in its own format, at its own pace. This observatory reconciles that patchwork instead of relying on any one source alone, and always keeps them in the same order of trust:
1. Official bulletins
Daily reports from each region's civil protection service — the only source that can mark a wildfire as officially extinguished, since that declaration has legal effects on the burned land.
2. EFFIS / Copernicus satellite
The EU's satellite programme measures the real burned-area outline independently of what any government reports — shown alongside the official figures, and used to fill gaps when a region is slow to publish, but never to override them.
3. Press coverage
Reported fires that haven't yet reached an official bulletin are shown, but clearly flagged as unconfirmed — a headline alone is never enough to upgrade a fire's status, only official sources or a second satellite pass can do that.
National coverage, region by region
This project started as a tracker for Aragón and has since grown to follow 17 Spanish regions, each against its own official channel: Castilla y León's open-data bulletins, Catalonia's Generalitat registry, Andalucía, the Comunitat Valenciana, Galicia's Medio Rural notices, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra, Asturias, the Basque Country, Cantabria, La Rioja, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, alongside Aragón's own NAPIF daily report. Where a region has no live incident feed, coverage falls back to press reports cross-checked against the satellite layer — always labeled as such, never presented as equivalent to an official bulletin.
Why the live map is in Spanish
The interface isn't translated on purpose. Every figure on the map — a municipality name, an official status, a press headline — is quoted from a Spanish-language source, and this project's priority is that you can trace each figure back to exactly what that source said, rather than to a paraphrase of it. Translating "estabilizado" to "stabilized" would make the map easier to skim, but it would also mean a reader could no longer check that word against the original bulletin it came from. Status colors and badges (active/stabilized/controlled/extinguished) stay consistent throughout regardless of language, and are explained in full in the English glossary guide.
If a wildfire breaks out near you in Spain
Call 112 — Spain's single emergency number, staffed in multiple languages — and follow the instructions of Civil Protection and local authorities.
Don't evacuate on your own initiative unless told to. Leaving too early, or by the wrong route, has caused more deaths in Spanish wildfires than staying put and sheltering correctly.
If sheltering indoors, close all doors and windows, seal gaps with wet cloth if smoke is entering, and move away from windows facing the fire.
If caught outdoors, never try to outrun a fire uphill or through dense scrub — fire moves faster uphill than a person can run. Look for bare ground, a road, or a water source instead.
This is not an official source or emergency service. It aggregates and labels public information (official bulletins, satellite data, press coverage). In case of a wildfire or emergency in Spain, always call 112 and follow Civil Protection's instructions.
Read more, in English
What is a wildfire?
Causes, how Spain grades a fire's severity, and the glossary this observatory uses — conato, EFFIS, FIRMS, FWI. Read the guide →
Why Spain's wildfires are getting worse
Heat, drought, abandoned land turning to scrub and houses built into the forest, with burned-area figures by year and aerial photos of 1956 against today. Read the feature →