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🇪🇸 Spain: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 122 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 07:40.

Busiest day: 28 October, with 22 ignitions detected. Longest fire: Monasterio de Rodilla, tracked for 7 h. +12% compared with September 2026.

122
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
114
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 122 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: 114 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 1022026-10-02: 1032026-10-03: 1042026-10-04: 2052026-10-05: 2062026-10-06: 1092026-10-09: 4102026-10-10: 5112026-10-11: 3132026-10-13: 3142026-10-14: 4152026-10-15: 3162026-10-16: 3172026-10-17: 3182026-10-18: 12192026-10-19: 1202026-10-20: 11212026-10-21: 1232026-10-23: 4252026-10-25: 2262026-10-26: 6272026-10-27: 4282026-10-28: 22292026-10-29: 6302026-10-30: 9312026-10-31: 8

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Bustares13 Oct, 08:102114
Bustares28 Oct, 09:253113
Petín15 Oct, 13:181080
Villamanín25 Oct, 22:284677
Cármenes26 Oct, 16:203277
Cisla27 Oct, 14:28876
Bustares15 Oct, 08:10155
La Campana2 Oct, 11:401250
Navia de Suarna14 Oct, 17:182243
Monasterio de Rodilla25 Oct, 20:207240

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Spain, October 2026: 122 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

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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