We have scored the climate risk of the 11.938 buildings in La Orotava using Cadastre data, satellite imagery and climate projections, and added it up by area, street and watercourse. Water is the biggest factor: 432 homes are in a flood zone.
Level of the highest hazard in each 250 m area by 2050: flooding, heat, wildfire, wind or ground movement.
Position among the 8.217 municipalities: further right means more risk. These are figures for the municipality as a whole, the same for everyone; they may differ from those for the typical building. Compare with others →
It comes from matching each building with its neighbourhood, its street, the nearest watercourse and its surroundings.
These are 4.726 buildings right next to vegetation that can burn. Of these, 4 are blocks of flats with 101 homes, where evacuation is harder.
Proximity to woodland and to burnt areas (ESA WorldCover, EFFIS). It does not measure the state of the vegetation or any firebreaks.
They are in the area that can flood once every 500 years according to the official maps (SNCZI); 392 of them are in the 100-year area. Next to Barranco Cerrudo, 15 homes are inside the flood zone, less than 100 m from the watercourse.
According to the Ministry’s studies, this is an annual probability of 0,2 % (500 years) or 1 % (100 years), not “once every 500 years”: it can happen two years in a row. Small gullies are not always mapped.
Schools whose surroundings are at least 1 °C hotter than the municipal median in summer. They are the first candidates for shade and tree-lined playgrounds.
Ground surface temperature (Landsat) around the building closest to the OpenStreetMap point.
Along Barranco de la Fuente Vieja (6,9 km within the municipality, dry most of the year) there is no official mapped flood zone, but there are 211 homes less than 50 m from the watercourse.
Having no official map does not mean it cannot overflow: watercourses that are dry most of the year are the ones that cause the most surprises in a storm.
In a typical building in La Orotava, nights when the temperature stays at or above 20 °C would rise from 9 a year (1991-2020) to about 14 by 2050. For this reason, 13 % of homes would be at a high or very high level.
Median of the buildings. Intermediate-to-high emissions scenario (SSP3-7.0).
The 16.873 homes in La Orotava by the level of their building. Tap a hazard to see it on the map.
The same data for all 8.217 municipalities in Spain. Choose what to compare with: municipalities of a similar size, the province, the region or the whole of Spain.
Compared with the 365 municipalities with between 20.000 and 100.000 inhabitants. The bar shows where La Orotava stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | La Orotava | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 9 nights | 28 nights | lower than 73 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 17 nights | 74 nights | lower than 83 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 25,4 °C | 32,0 °C | lower than 89 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 1,5 °C | 0,7 °C | higher than 86 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,0% | 2,0% | lower than 89 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 20,1% | 0,0% | higher than 97 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 2,8 | 4,9 | lower than 84 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 28 m/s | 29 m/s | lower than 62 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,8 mm/yr | −0,7 mm/yr | sinking faster than 95 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 19% | 19% | higher than 55 % of them |
Compared with the 54 municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife province. The bar shows where La Orotava stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | La Orotava | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 9 nights | 24 nights | lower than 90 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 17 nights | 57 nights | lower than 95 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 25,4 °C | 24,9 °C | higher than 77 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 1,5 °C | 0,9 °C | higher than 66 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,0% | 0,0% | higher than 50 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 20,1% | 0,2% | higher than 81 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 2,8 | 2,8 | higher than 50 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 28 m/s | 31 m/s | lower than 64 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,8 mm/yr | −1,4 mm/yr | sinking faster than 74 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 19% | 21% | lower than 71 % of them |
Compared with the 88 municipalities in the Canary Islands. The bar shows where La Orotava stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | La Orotava | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 9 nights | 41 nights | lower than 94 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 17 nights | 78 nights | lower than 97 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 25,4 °C | 25,1 °C | higher than 59 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 1,5 °C | 0,5 °C | higher than 79 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,0% | 0,0% | higher than 50 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 20,1% | 0,1% | higher than 82 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 2,8 | 2,8 | higher than 50 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 28 m/s | 29 m/s | lower than 55 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,8 mm/yr | −1,3 mm/yr | sinking faster than 79 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 19% | 20% | lower than 61 % of them |
Compared with the 8.217 municipalities in Spain. The bar shows where La Orotava stands: further right means more risk.
| Indicator | La Orotava | Group median | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical nights a year, today | 9 nights | 0 nights | higher than 75 % of them |
| Tropical nights a year, 2050 | 17 nights | 8 nights | higher than 56 % of them |
| Average summer maximum, 2050 | 25,4 °C | 32,4 °C | lower than 93 % of them |
| Night-time heat island | 1,5 °C | 0,1 °C | higher than 97 % of them |
| Flood-prone area (100-year) | 0,0% | 0,6% | lower than 80 % of them |
| Area burnt 2016-2026 | 20,1% | 0,0% | higher than 96 % of them |
| Water stress 2050 (0-5) | 2,8 | 4,6 | lower than 84 % of them |
| Maximum 50-year gust | 28 m/s | 31 m/s | lower than 75 % of them |
| Ground movement | −1,8 mm/yr | −0,4 mm/yr | sinking faster than 97 % of them |
| Population aged 65 or over | 19% | 28% | lower than 85 % of them |
Values for the municipality as a whole (median over built-up land). The position is the percentage of municipalities in the group with a lower value: it is not a probability of damage. 2050 = SSP3-7.0 scenario.
Semicolon-separated tables with a decimal comma, ready to open in a spreadsheet or a GIS (areas include longitude and latitude).
What this is and what it is not. It is a guide-only analysis made with public data and models, with the same rules for every municipality. It does not replace official maps, a technical study or emergency plans. For your own building, look up its report.
Building by building. We have scored the 11.938 Cadastre buildings in La Orotava with the same rules as each building’s report on Mi Riesgo Climático, from 0 to 100 for each hazard: low (up to 25), medium (up to 50), high (up to 75) and very high.
Aggregates only. To protect each owner, no individual building appears here: only 250 m areas with at least 3 buildings, and neighbourhoods and streets with at least 60 homes.
Wildfire and flooding. Wildfire counts proximity to woodland or scrubland of at least 100 ha (not urban parks or tree-lined streets). For flooding, besides the official flood zones, a building that was inside a real flood observed by satellite (Copernicus EMS, such as the 2024 DANA storm) is at least at high level.
2050. Average for 2041-2070 under an intermediate-to-high emissions scenario (SSP3-7.0). Tropical nights and heat change with the climate; flooding, wildfire, wind and ground movement are shown with current data when there is no projection.
Rivers and streams. Named watercourses from OpenStreetMap. We count the homes less than 50 and 100 m from the watercourse and, separately, how many of them are in an official flood zone (SNCZI). Being close does not mean they will flood, and having no official zone does not mean they cannot.
Neighbourhoods and streets. Neighbourhoods and districts from OpenStreetMap; streets according to the Cadastre address. The street heat index combines tropical nights in 2050 (35 %), heat island (30 %), lack of trees (20 %) and buildings from before 1980 (15 %).
Sources. Cadastre (buildings and addresses); ERA5 + CHELSA/CMIP6 MPI-ESM1-2-HR and AdapteCCa (tropical nights and temperature); Landsat 8/9 and MODIS (heat island); ESA WorldCover and EFFIS (wildfire); MITECO SNCZI (flood zones); JRC (coast); ERA5 + Global Wind Atlas (wind); Copernicus EGMS (ground movement); WRI Aqueduct (water); INE (population); OpenStreetMap, © contributors, ODbL (streets, neighbourhoods, rivers and facilities).