Heat hotspots detected by satellite in Spain
Check whether satellites have detected intense heat near a municipality in the last 48 hours. These are not confirmed wildfires.
This is NOT an official alert and does not confirm wildfires. These are heat detections from satellites: they can be a wildfire, an authorised agricultural burn or an industrial site. If you see fire or smoke, call 112.
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Are there hotspots near my municipality?
Type the name of the municipality, choose it from the list and press “Check”. Names are the Spanish ones (for example “Alcántara”, “Sevilla”). We look for hotspots inside its boundaries or within 10 km of its centre, and show the official AEMET warnings for its area.
Municipalities with significant hotspots
| Municipality | Province | Detections | Max power (MW) | Latest detection |
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Power (MW) is the radiative power of the fire measured by the satellite: more power usually means more intense burning, but it is not the same as the area burned. Times are Madrid time.
How these data are produced
- Source: detections by the VIIRS satellites (Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21) published by NASA FIRMS (opens in a new tab), the same base used by EFFIS (opens in a new tab). Each detection covers a pixel of about 375 metres.
- Updates: our server checks the data every 3 hours, and satellite data usually takes 2–3 hours to be published, so what you see may already have stopped burning.
- What is discarded: low-confidence detections, detections outside Spain, and detections that repeat on 4 or more of the last 10 days at the same spot (typical of chimneys, kilns and landfills). The list shows only municipalities with detections of at least 5 MW.
- AEMET warnings: official weather warnings (yellow, orange or red) checked every 30 minutes and assigned to a municipality by the warning zone containing its centre. They are weather warnings, not wildfire warnings. Source: AEMET.
- Limits: clouds and thick smoke hide fires, and a small or very recent fire may not appear. This page does not replace Civil Protection, your regional emergency services or 112.