A Pobra de Trives fire, August 2016 A Pobra de Trives
The fire started on 15 August 2016 in A Pobra de Trives, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 167 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 14 August 2016 at 18:24 and declared extinguished on 17 August 2016.
It is the 89th largest in Ourense since 2016 (of 118 with a page). Number 54 in Spain in 2016, of 69.
The power measured by the satellite is low (7.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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- Burnt area
- 167ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 15 Aug 2016 – 15 Aug 2016
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 15 Aug
- 2016
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 7 MW
- Danger at start
- 8
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 17MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
15 Aug 2016 · 17 MW · 4
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 17 Aug.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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167 ha reached on 15 Aug2.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Other natural land69 %
- Broadleaved forest22 %
- Agricultural areas8.4 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Official record
According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 14 August 2016 and burned 178 ha (the satellite measured 167 ha).
- A Pobra de Trives 14 August 2016 · 18:24 178 ha · extinguished on 17 August 2016 · cause: arson
MITECO, Estadística General de Incendios Forestales (EGIF). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Aug | 29.5 °C | 35 % | 36 km/h | 3.5 mm | Low 8 |
| 16 Aug after | 27.7 °C | 39 % | 37 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 17 Aug after | 23.9 °C | 61 % | 37 km/h | 1.5 mm | Low 8 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 16 August 2016 the air beside the fire reached 31 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the A Pobra de Trives fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 15 August 2016 and 15 August 2016: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 14 August 2016 at 18:24 and declared extinguished on 17 August 2016.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 167 hectares (1.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered A Pobra de Trives (167 ha, 2.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in A Pobra de Trives and came within 3.2 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 29.5 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, class Low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Spain (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 4 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- Compared with EGIF (MITECO): 178 official ha against 167 ha of perimeter; they agree within 25%.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.