Allande fire, 19 April 2017 Allande, Tineo
The fire started on 19 April 2017 in Allande, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 758 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), the largest of the 4 recorded fires was detected on 20 April 2017 at 21:34 and declared extinguished on 25 April 2017.
It is the 12th largest in Asturias since 2016 (of 225 with a page). Number 36 in Spain in 2017, of 144.
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- Burnt area
- 758ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 6days
- 19 Apr 2017 – 24 Apr 2017
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 19 Apr
- 2017
- Heat detections
- 79
- in a single hotspot: 43 MW
- Danger at start
- 8
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 117MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
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 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 13.2 mm on 25 Apr.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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710 ha reached on 19 Apr2.1 %
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Tineo 8,679 inhabitants · 17.5 km from the centre49 ha reached on 21 Apr0.1 %
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 land100 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Complex of 4 fires according to EGIF (MITECO)
According to EGIF (MITECO), 4 fires started inside this perimeter on these dates, totalling 807 ha (the satellite measured 758 ha).
EGIF (MITECO) records each fire that started at a different time or place separately; the satellite sees a single burned area, so this page groups them together. The numbers on the map show where each one started.
- 1 Allande Bustantigo 15 April 2017 · 19:53 15 ha · extinguished on 16 April 2017 · cause: arson
- 2 Allande Bustantigo 16 April 2017 · 18:23 8 ha · extinguished on 16 April 2017 · cause: arson
- 3 Allande Bustantigo 19 April 2017 · 09:27 38 ha · extinguished on 19 April 2017 · cause: arson
- 4 Allande Bustantigo 20 April 2017 · 21:34 745 ha · extinguished on 25 April 2017 · cause: arson
Total according to EGIF (MITECO): 807 ha, 106 % of the 758 ha in the satellite perimeter.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Apr | 12.5 °C | 52 % | 70 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 20 Apr | 14.6 °C | 50 % | 65 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 21 Apr | 19.5 °C | 37 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 22 Apr | 20.7 °C | 26 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 23 Apr | 20.4 °C | 40 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 24 Apr | 20.3 °C | 41 % | 35 km/h | 2.8 mm | Very low 1 |
| 25 Apr after | 13.9 °C | 82 % | 46 km/h | 13.2 mm | Very low 0 |
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 22 April 2017 the air beside the fire reached 43 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 25: 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 · 79Every 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 Allande fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 19 April 2017 to 24 April 2017 (6 days). The perimeter dates it from 20 April 2017 to 23 April 2017. According to EGIF (MITECO), the largest of the 4 recorded fires was detected on 20 April 2017 at 21:34 and declared extinguished on 25 April 2017.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 758 hectares (7.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Allande (710 ha, 2.1 %); Tineo (49 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Allande and came within 8.2 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 20.7 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 11, 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.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 20 April 2017 to 23 April 2017. 79 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- Compared with EGIF (MITECO): 807 official ha against 758 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.