What is happening in Spain today: a plain guide in English
How to use this website, what the data means and where to find official information.
This website is not an emergency service. In an emergency call 112. It shows official warnings, satellite detections and recorded earthquakes as their sources publish them, plus historical wildfire statistics, not live alerts.
Emergency page →What is this website?
Hoy en mi zona (“today in my area”) brings together, in one place, what is happening in Spain today: official AEMET weather warnings (storms, rain, wind, snow and cold, heat, coast and waves, fog), heat hotspots detected by satellites and earthquakes recorded by Spain's National Geographic Institute (IGN). For wildfires it also shows the history of almost every Spanish municipality: how many fires there were, how many hectares burned and how that changed over the decades, using the official Spanish General Wildfire Statistics (EGIF) from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition, covering 1980 to 2023. The website itself is in Spanish; this page explains how to use it.
What can I do here?
- Look up a municipality. Type its name on the Spanish home page (names work as they are written in Spain). Each municipality has a page with its wildfire statistics, a chart and a data table.
- See today's weather warnings. Avisos de hoy (in Spanish) lists every active AEMET warning in Spain and lets you search by municipality. Updated every 30 minutes.
- Check heat hotspots near you. The hotspots page shows detections by NASA satellites in the last 48 hours near any municipality, and official AEMET weather warnings for its area. Updated every few hours.
- Find out what to do. Qué hacer (in Spanish) gives official recommendations for storms, floods, strong wind, snow and cold, heat, earthquakes and fires, with their legal basis.
- Find official information. See the list below.
How to read the data
- AEMET warnings (storms, rain, wind, snow and cold, heat, coastal events, fog) are official weather warnings issued by AEMET. This website only reproduces them, with their update time.
- A heat hotspot is not a confirmed wildfire. Satellites detect heat; it can be a wildfire, an agricultural burn or an industrial site. Data arrives with a delay of 2–3 hours and clouds can hide fires.
- Earthquakes are shown as recorded by the IGN, with the time converted to Madrid time. The public feed lists only a few events.
- Wildfire risk level (low, medium, high, very high) is a relative classification calculated by this website from the historical wildfire record. It is not an official forecast and says nothing about today.
Official sources
- 112 – European emergency number (free)
- AEMET – official weather warnings (English) (opens in a new tab)
- EFFIS – European Forest Fire Information System (opens in a new tab)
- Civil Protection (Spanish government, in Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Accessibility and language
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