 There have been 16 forest fires in the last 8 years that affected an average of 0.8 hectares of woods, although the biggest one was in 1998, which caused the loss of more than 500 hectares.Within Desierto de los Leones, approximately 102 species of fungi can be found.These species belong to the Ascomycota division, which is broken down in 6 different families and 47 types of Basidiomycota that have 22 families.