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#NEROFireBrief: Los Gallardos Wildfire – Spain, July 2026 – NERO

In the afternoon of 9 July 2026, a vegetation fire ignited beside the N-340A highway in the Almocáizar area of #losgallardos on the arid coastal fringe of #Almería. The landscape here is classic Mediterranean grassland with scattered shrub over mild terrain — but the season had loaded it. An exceptionally wet winter grew a heavy grass crop, which was then cured to tinder by an unusually hot, dry May and June and two consecutive heat waves in the fortnight before ignition. The result was an abundant, continuous and highly available fuel bed.

The weather on the 9th supplied the other half of the equation: dry south-westerly winds of 20–30 km/h aligned with the terrain, relative humidity near 15%, and temperatures peaking at 41.3 °C — with an overnight minimum that never dropped below 24.3 °C. Both were 10-day extremes for the local stations.
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https://nero-network.eu/news/nero-fire-brief-losgallardos-spain-2026