Spain — Natural Disaster Report
Europe · Live status: Critical (1139 active events)
Current situation: 1139 natural disaster events are currently monitored in Spain, with a worst severity of Extreme. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Spain's hazard profile is increasingly dominated by drought, heat and fire. Multi-year drought has drained reservoirs across Catalonia, Andalusia and the interior, forcing water restrictions and damaging agriculture. Summer heatwaves regularly exceed 45°C in the south, and the 2022 heatwaves were linked to thousands of excess deaths. Wildfires burn hundreds of thousands of hectares in severe years. The Mediterranean coast experiences the gota fría or DANA phenomenon, in which a cut-off upper-level low delivers extraordinary rainfall in hours — the October 2024 Valencia floods killed more than 200 people. The Canary Islands are volcanically active, with the 2021 La Palma eruption destroying thousands of buildings.
Live map — Spain
Loading live data… · Marker positions are approximate; severity is labelled in each popup. Sources: USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET, NOAA/NWS, EMSC.
Active alerts & recent events
Latest earthquakes
Near a particular city? Earthquake history near a place · disasters reported near a place · compare Spain's earthquake record with another country.
By hazard in Spain
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
- Earthquakes in Spain
- Extreme Weather in Spain
- Heatwaves in Spain
- Heavy Rains in Spain
- Severe Storms in Spain
- Storm Surges in Spain
- Wildfires in Spain
Risk profile
Drought and water scarcity as a multi-year condition. Heatwaves June-September. Wildfires June-October. DANA flash floods September-November on the Mediterranean coast. Volcanic activity in the Canary Islands. Moderate earthquake risk in the southeast.
Official emergency authorities
Disaster displacement in Spain
32,694 internal displacements
Largest single event: 19,355 from wildfire, beginning 10 August 2025.
A displacement is a movement, not a person: somebody forced from home more than once in a year is counted more than once. These are movements caused by disasters only — displacement caused by conflict is counted separately and is not included here.
| Hazard | Displacements in 2025 |
|---|---|
| Wildfire | 29,906 |
| Storm | 1,608 |
| Flood | 986 |
| Mass Movement | 194 |
| Year | Displacements |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 32,694 |
| 2024 | 13,695 |
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Global Internal Displacement Database. IDMC publishes annually, so the latest year here is the latest they have finalised — not the current one.
River flood forecast — Spain
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: as currently ongoing · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: in 3 days (on 2026-10-22) · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: in 3 days (on 2026-10-22) · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: as currently ongoing · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
GloFAS forecasts are computer model output, published for information only. They are not a flood warning: only national and regional authorities issue flood warnings for their own area. A reporting point is a place on the model's river network, which may sit a few kilometres from the town it is named after. All 259 rivers →
What this site sees in Spain
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | 4,356 | Each warning comes from one country own alerting authority, so the scale is that agency scale and is not comparable between countries. Many agencies publish no coordinates, and those warnings are placed at the centre of the country rather than where the weather is - the area name is the real answer. |
| MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET) | 4,095 | Europe only. It publishes no coordinates at all, so every warning here is placed at the centre of its country and the area name is the only reliable indication of where it applies. |
| NASA FIRMS | 17 | Global, but it sees only what the satellite saw on its pass, and thick cloud hides fire. A quiet day here is not evidence that nothing burned. |
| GDACS (European Commission / United Nations) | 7 | Global, but deliberately selective: it alerts on disasters likely to need INTERNATIONAL response. Serious local flooding that a national agency handles alone will not appear here. |
| European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | 7 | Global for earthquakes, with the best coverage in Europe and the Mediterranean. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| US Geological Survey | 2 | Global for earthquakes above roughly M4.5, and denser where there are more seismometers. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| NASA EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers | none | These two centres warn for the US and Canadian coasts and for the Pacific and Caribbean basins. The Indian Ocean and Mediterranean have their own warning centres, which are not read here. Their routine information statements - the ones that say there is NO tsunami danger - are deliberately not imported, so an empty tsunami list means no threat was issued, not that nothing was checked. |
| NOAA National Hurricane Center | none | The Atlantic and the eastern and central Pacific only. No typhoon in the western Pacific and no cyclone in the Indian Ocean or the southern hemisphere appears here; those come from GDACS and from national services. |
| ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) | none | Global, but it reports on humanitarian RESPONSE. It arrives days after an event rather than during it, and never functions as a warning. |
Not applicable here: US National Weather Service — Covers the United States only. It publishes nothing about any other country, so its absence from a country page is not an outage. ; USGS Volcano Hazards Program — United States volcanoes only - Alaska, Hawaii, the Cascades, Yellowstone, California and the Northern Mariana Islands. It says nothing about Indonesia, Iceland, Italy or anywhere else, so its silence about a foreign eruption is not a judgement about that eruption.
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Spain?
There are currently 1139 monitored natural disaster events in Spain. The overall risk status is Critical. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Spain face?
Spain's hazard profile is increasingly dominated by drought, heat and fire. Multi-year drought has drained reservoirs across Catalonia, Andalusia and the interior, forcing water restrictions and damaging agriculture.
When is the main natural disaster season in Spain?
Drought and water scarcity as a multi-year condition. Heatwaves June-September. Wildfires June-October. DANA flash floods September-November on the Mediterranean coast. Volcanic activity in the Canary Islands. Moderate earthquake risk in the southeast. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Which official agency issues disaster warnings in Spain?
Official warnings for Spain are issued by AEMET — State Meteorological Agency. The link is on this page. This site aggregates and reports; it does not issue warnings, and in an emergency the national agency is the authority.
Where does this disaster data for Spain come from?
Data is aggregated from official sources including USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, ReliefWeb and national agencies. Every event links to its original source, and update times are shown on each record.
Data sources: USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, NOAA/NWS, EMSC, ReliefWeb (UN OCHA). See data sources & attribution and methodology. This page does not replace official emergency guidance.