Villalba del Alcor: a record, not a live warning · checked against official sources 16 August 2026 at 09:47 UK time
Villalba del Alcor Wildfire Risk: Should I Travel?
The fire at the Finca Purchena area was declared out on the evening of 1 August. Nothing in the village is closed.
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What this page advised while Villalba del Alcor was listed
Plan INFOCA declared the fire at the Finca Purchena area of Villalba del Alcor extinguished at twenty to seven on the evening of Saturday 1 August. It had been declared at twenty past one that afternoon and stabilised at half past three. Four aircraft went in, two heavy helicopters and two ground based cargo planes, with eighteen people and an engine, and the aircraft were stood down early because it was going well. No evacuation was ordered, no road closure was reported and nothing in the village is shut. What is left is burnt ground on the farmland edge, which is worth knowing if you were planning to walk out that way.
What was still disrupted in Villalba del Alcor when this page was stood down
Checked against Diario de Huelva, citing Plan INFOCA on 2026-08-01, while Villalba del Alcor was still listed. Nothing below has been rechecked since, so read every line as the position on that date rather than the position today. The source below is the authority.
- Check locally: Plan INFOCA declared the Finca Purchena fire extinguished. Declared at twenty past one on 1 August, stabilised at half past three and extinguished at twenty to seven the same evening. (as of 2026-08-01)
- Restriction had been lifted: No evacuation or closure was in force at any point. INFOCA reported no evacuation and no road closure during the fire, and stood the aerial crews down early. The operation was closed once the perimeter was secure. (as of 2026-08-01)
Diario de Huelva, citing Plan INFOCA →
Checks that still apply if you are going anyway
Nothing is closed
No road, path or business at Villalba del Alcor was reported shut at any point, and nobody was moved out.Burnt ground at Finca Purchena
The fire ran through farmland outside the village. Burnt ground is unstable underfoot and there is nothing to see there.The neighbouring towns
The fires that are still going in this part of Huelva have been at Lucena del Puerto and Moguer. Check those before planning a day out to the west.Do not light anything
INFOCA has been called out repeatedly in this corner of Huelva since late July. The one thing a visitor controls is not adding to it.Nearby alternatives to compare
- Villalba del Alcor itself,The fire was on farmland outside the village and it is out. Nothing there is closed.
- Moguer,Its own fire at the Camino de las Cumbres was declared out on the morning of 5 August.
- The rest of El Condado,The fires here have been small and quickly held, and no town in the area has been evacuated.
Why this page was stood down
Villalba del Alcor was listed on this site while there was a fire signal near it. It was stood down on 2026-08-12 against the official sources listed below. This page records what was published while the area was listed, and it does not claim anything about conditions today.
The page stays here because the record is worth keeping and because links to it should not break. If you are travelling to Villalba del Alcor now, the live map and the official sources below are the current position, not this page.
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