A Gudiña fire, August 2025
The fire started on 12 August 2025 in A Gudiña, Spain, and burned for 7 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 12,026 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities.
Burnt area
12,026
hectares
Duration
7
days
Municipalities hit
4
Started on
12 Aug
2025
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Gudiña where it started | 5,278 | 30.8 % | |
| A Mezquita | 3,380 | 32.3 % | |
| Viana do Bolo | 3,078 | 11.4 % | |
| Pías | 310 | 7.0 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Other natural land
59.5 %
Coniferous forest
13.2 %
Agricultural areas
12.2 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
10.2 %
Broadleaved forest
4.5 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 8.0 %