River levels and wildfire activity
Live water level and flow from every Spanish river-basin authority, and satellite fire detections across Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Ireland. Taken straight from the agencies that measure it — observations only, never a forecast.
Or jump to a basin:EbroDueroTajoGuadalquivir
Rivers
Change over the last 3 hours
- 180
- rising
- 149
- falling
- 1,063
- steady
Rising, by network
- Ebro37
- Cataluña23
- Guadalquivir22
- Duero20
- Segura14
- Cantábrico12
1,143 of 1,392 stations reported in the last two hours. Newest reading 30 Jul, 01:05 UTC.
All 1,392 stationsWildfires
Satellite detections, last 24 hours
1,541detections
- Spain511
- France347
- Portugal342
- Italy169
- Ireland17
- Unassigned155
7,089 burnt-area perimeters surveyed so far this season. The map scrubs back 60 days.
Live fire mapWhich networks are publishing
Each authority runs its own telemetry and publishes on its own schedule. This is the last reading each one released — so when a network goes quiet, you can see it here rather than mistake it for a calm river.
| Network | Stations | Reported <2 h | Newest reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| EbroLive | 260 | 253 | 30 Jul, 00:45 UTC |
| DueroLive | 178 | 175 | 30 Jul, 00:56 UTC |
| TajoLive | 156 | 79 | 30 Jul, 00:00 UTC |
| GuadianaLagging | 136 | 0 | 29 Jul, 22:40 UTC |
| CantábricoLive | 130 | 130 | 30 Jul, 01:05 UTC |
| Galicia-CostaLive | 85 | 85 | 29 Jul, 23:50 UTC |
| SeguraLive | 85 | 85 | 30 Jul, 00:05 UTC |
| CataluñaLive | 84 | 84 | 30 Jul, 00:50 UTC |
| Miño-SilLive | 73 | 70 | 30 Jul, 01:00 UTC |
| GuadalquivirLive | 71 | 71 | 30 Jul, 01:00 UTC |
| JúcarLive | 61 | 61 | 30 Jul, 01:05 UTC |
| Cuencas Mediterráneas AndaluzasLive | 38 | 38 | 30 Jul, 00:00 UTC |
| País VascoLagging | 23 | 0 | 29 Jul, 22:40 UTC |
| NavarraLive | 12 | 12 | 30 Jul, 00:40 UTC |
How this is sourced
- Observations, not forecasts
- Every figure here is a satellite measurement or a gauge reading. Nothing on this site predicts where a fire will go or how high a river will get. Where a prediction would be useful but is not good enough to act on, we leave it off rather than dress it up.
- Provisional, at agency cadence
- Sources publish on their own schedules — roughly every 15 minutes for the Ebro, hourly for Galicia, hourly for satellite detections. Readings are provisional and get revised. We show the last thing each network published, and when.
- Not an emergency service
- A reference, not a warning system. It does not replace Civil Protection, the hydrological authorities or the fire services. In an emergency, call 112 and follow official guidance.
- Smoke-layer accuracy
- Checked against AERONET ground instruments, which measure the same quantity directly: correlation 0.82, mean error 0.056 AOD across 3,117 station-hours at 10 stations over 30 days. The layer is bias-corrected onto that measured scale. Fire detections and burnt-area perimeters are not ours to score — NASA and Copernicus publish them as-is.
Sources & licences
Public data published by the organisations below. Their terms require the attribution to travel with the data, so it lives here.
| Source | Data | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| NASA FIRMS (VIIRS / MODIS) | Active fire / thermal-anomaly detections | NASA open data policy |
| Copernicus EMS — EFFIS | Surveyed burnt-area perimeters | Copernicus data licence |
| Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) | Smoke aerosol, Saharan dust, PM2.5, European air-quality index | Copernicus data licence |
| SAIH — Spanish confederaciones hidrográficas | River level and flow (Ebro, Duero, Tajo, Guadiana, Guadalquivir, Segura, Júcar, Cantábrico, Miño-Sil, Sur) | Public-domain / reuse of public-sector information |
| URA, ACA, Augas de Galicia, Gobierno de Navarra | River level and flow for the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and Navarre | Regional open-data terms |
| NASA AERONET | Ground-truth aerosol measurements used to score the smoke layer | AERONET data-use policy |
| OpenStreetMap | Basemap geometry and place names | © OpenStreetMap contributors — ODbL 1.0 |