The wildfire map of this Friday, August 28, places the main focus of attention on the Devesa de El Saler, in Valencia. The fire declared during the afternoon of Thursday remains active and has forced the evacuation of the hamlet of El Saler and several campsites located in the surroundings of the Albufera Natural Park.
The situation contrasts with the favorable evolution of other fires that have marked the last few days. Pina de Montalgrao has already been extinguished, while the fires in Segorbe and Collserola remain controlled and only maintain surveillance and consolidation work on the affected areas.
Official map of active fires from Copernicus
The European Forest Fire Information System, EFFIS, offers a public viewer to locate fires, hot spots, and burned areas in Spain and the rest of Europe.
The map allows observing the perimeters detected by satellite, but the appearance of a hot spot does not necessarily mean that there is an active wildfire. To know the official status of each emergency, the regional emergency services of 112 and firefighting must also be consulted.
El Saler concentrates the main focus of attention
The wildfire declared in the area of the Gola de Pujol, in the Devesa de El Saler, remains active this Friday. The firefighting teams have worked throughout the night to stop the fire and prevent possible reactivations within an area of high environmental value.
The emergency forced the evacuation of the hamlet of El Saler and two nearby campsites. A total of 161 people were relocated to the La Fonteta pavilion, while situation 2 of the Special Plan against the Risk of Wildfires remains activated.
The affected area is around 37 hectares, although the figure is still pending a definitive measurement. Several roads and accesses in the affected area remain closed while the teams maintain the deployed operation.
Pina de Montalgrao is extinguished
The fire declared on Wednesday in Pina de Montalgrao, in Castellón, has been extinguished after a rapid intervention by the emergency services. The fire was stabilized shortly after its declaration and the favorable evolution allowed the emergency to be closed during the same day.
The ground and air resources mobilized managed to contain the advance of the flames before the fire reached a larger extent, in a new action that prevented the spread of the fire through the forest mass of the surroundings.
Segorbe remains controlled after affecting 633 hectares
The fire in Segorbe, caused by the fall of a lightning bolt and spread through the surroundings of the Sierra Calderona, remains controlled after affecting 633 hectares.
The device continues to carry out surveillance and monitoring tasks over the wide affected perimeter. The situation has left behind the emergency phase, although the fire has not yet been declared extinguished.
Collserola maintains the control phase
The fire declared this week in the surroundings of the Natural Park of the Sierra de Collserola, in Barcelona, remains controlled after affecting 54 hectares. During the emergency, it was necessary to establish preventive confinements and evacuate several homes near the forest area.
The work is now concentrated on monitoring the perimeter and eliminating possible hot spots. The favorable evolution has allowed for a reduction in the device deployed during the first hours of the fire.
Pinofranqueado remains under surveillance in Las Hurdes
The fire in Pinofranqueado, in the Cáceres region of Las Hurdes, remains controlled after several days of emergency. The fire affected thousands of hectares and forced the evacuation of various hamlets before the evolution allowed for the lifting of restrictions.
The current phase focuses on monitoring the perimeter and preventing possible re-ignitions, while the recovery of the areas and nuclei affected by one of the most significant fires recorded during August continues.
To know the specific situation of a municipality, these sources should be used:
- EFFIS-Copernicus: satellite location, perimeters, and hot spots.
- Civil Protection: emergencies and state deployment.
- DGT: closed or affected roads.
- AEMET: daily fire risk level.
- Autonomous services of 112: official status of each fire, evacuations, and confinements.
Searcher: check the fire risk today in your municipality
Enter the name of your municipality in the search engine to know the level of forest fire risk forecasted today according to AEMET. The search engine is updated daily and shows the situation in more than 8,000 Spanish municipalities through the Forest Fire Danger Index (IPIF).
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The system classifies the risk into six levels:
- Very low.
- Low.
- Moderate.
- High.
- Very high.
- Extreme.
Each municipality appears classified according to the predominant level expected for that day.
How the fire risk map works
The search engine uses the information published daily by the State Meteorological Agency through its *Forest Fire Danger Index (IPIF).
This system combines different meteorological variables that directly influence the possibility of a forest fire starting and spreading, among them:
- Temperature.
- Relative humidity.
- Wind speed and direction.
- Accumulated precipitation.
- State of the vegetation.
With all this data, AEMET prepares a forecast map that allows estimating the level of danger existing at each point of the national territory.
What each risk level means
The index used by AEMET divides the fire risk into six categories:
- Very low* and low indicate that the meteorological conditions are not very favorable for the start of a large fire.
- The moderate level advises taking extra precautions, especially in activities that may generate sparks or flames.
- When the risk becomes high, very high, or extreme, the chances of a fire starting and spreading rapidly increase considerably, especially if episodes of intense wind or very high temperatures coincide.