How to see them on Google Maps, other maps and pages to have all updated information.

Let’s tell you How can you follow the state of fires With all the information, and also seeing them on the map. In this way, if you have a fire near your location or if you just want to stay informed or informed, you will have the best ways to do it.

We are going to start telling you how to follow the evolution of these events with some fire mapswith which you can see in real time its progress and current state. Then, we will tell you some additional sources with which to know all the information.

Look at the fires on Google Maps

You can look at active fires and information on them on Google Maps. To do so, on the main screen click on the layer button or mapswhich appears with the icon of two squares or overlapping pages.

This will open a screen where you can choose between several types of maps to visualize. On this screen, click on the map of Forest fires that will appear with the icon of a flame.

This will take you to a maps screen where all active maps will appear in red. You can click on the icon of any of the firesand a page will open with all the information, where you can see the size of the fire in red, and you have links to access the news or to inform that there is a road cut in the area.

NASA Fire Map

Another tool you have available is NASA’s fire map. To see it enters the web WorldView.earthdata.nasa.govwhere on the left you can activate the filter so that fires from around the world are displayed.

This map can be confusing, but Below you can choose a date concrete, and then the fire map of that specific day will be shown worldwide, being able to navigate and zoom in specific areas.

Here, what you should know is that The map is not updated in real timebut take a world capture every day, so that you can sail for evolution, and even create animations with this evolution of fires in an area.

Other pages to have the information

Now, let’s tell you other pages where you can get Updated information about fires that is in Spain. Thus, you can follow the last hour of the evolution of those that interest you most, or everyone in general.

• Copernicus system: Copernicus is the European Forest Fire Information System, and you have a map where you can activate the visualization of all active fires in Europe. This visualization is in the left column. Link: forest-fire.emerncy.copernicus.eu/apps/effis_current_situation/index.html
• Online newspapers: Almost all newspapers in Spain have launched in their online versions pages dedicated to the last hour of all fires in general in Spain this summer. You can see those of, for example, The newspaper, Zero wave either The country among many others.
• Civio Fire Map: This page collects the information of all the fires that has been, and the sample on a map so you can get the idea of the total area that the fires have been covering in Spain since there is data. Each point is a fire, and when passing the mouse on it it gives you all the information about it. Link: Civio.es/medio-ambiente/mapa-de-incendios-forestry.
• Official statistics: You also have the Historical Statistics page of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge. In it, you can see all kinds of fire statistics since there are data, at the end of the 60s. Link: miteco.gob.es/es/biodiversity/temas/incendios-forestales/estadisticas-datos.html.

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