Spain’s General Forest Fire Statistics (1968–2023) map the duration of large wildfires across the country. Each circle marks a blaze of at least 500 hectares and shows the number of hours it took to be declared extinguished, from pale yellow for less than a day to orange for several days and deep red for more than 100 days. Clusters in Galicia, Catalonia, and along the Mediterranean coast show fires that smoldered for weeks, and the visualization makes clear that Spain does not face more large fires than in the past but that they now burn far longer, with median extinguishing times nearly tripling since the 1970s as drought, climate change, and forest expansion drive longer, more destructive events.
Extinguishing Wildfires in Spain
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