A total of 382,607 hectares have been torched in Spain so far this year in 228 fires detected in various parts of the country, according to data updated on Tuesday by the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). With this latest estimate released today before midday, it appears that the area burned in Spain in 2025 covers almost the equivalent size of Mallorca - 364,000 hectares.
According to the latest data provided by EFFIS, a tool dependent on the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation and monitoring programme, this is also an area almost nine times larger than that burned during the whole of 2024, when 42,615 hectares were burned in 219 fires.
It also exceeds the area burned in 2023 - 91,220 hectares in 371 fires - and far exceeds the figures recorded in 2022, until now considered the worst year in terms of area burned by forest fires in the country: 306,555 hectares in 493 fires.
Spain is currently fighting some 40 fires across the country, of which 23 are classified as Operational Level 2 due to their severity, according to the latest data released this week by Civil Protection. The heatwave that affected the country for 16 days, with temperatures exceeding 45 degrees in some places and which ended yesterday, Monday, did not help to control the fires either.