🇪🇸 Spain: wildfires in August 2026
Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.
Spain, August 2026: 120 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 04:38.
Busiest day: 5 August, with 13 ignitions detected. Longest fire: Prádena de Atienza, tracked for 9 h.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 120 detection events in Spain, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 949 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muñopedro | 9 Aug, 15:10 | 2 | 949 |
| Marines | 20 Aug, 23:10 | 114 | 840 |
| Alcublas | 20 Aug, 23:25 | 8 | 672 |
| Longás | 10 Aug, 13:25 | 1 | 601 |
| Puértolas | 4 Aug, 20:11 | 19 | 385 |
| Vegas de Matute | 8 Aug, 15:00 | 77 | 362 |
| Ortigosa del Monte | 9 Aug, 15:00 | 45 | 281 |
| Posada de Valdeón | 10 Aug, 12:40 | 3 | 260 |
| Villaturde | 3 Aug, 15:20 | 68 | 254 |
| Salvatierra de Miño | 18 Aug, 15:38 | 11 | 249 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Spain, August 2026: 120 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-06.
Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.
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