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Almanza fire, August 2025

The fire started on 16 August 2025 in Almanza, Spain, and burned for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 6,862 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 7 municipalities.

Burnt area
6,862
hectares
Duration
3
days
Municipalities hit
7
Started on
16 Aug
2025

The burnt perimeter

What happened to each town

Municipality Hectares % of its area
Almanza where it started 2,470 17.4 %
Mantinos 1,380 54.7 %
Guardo 1,105 17.5 %
Villalba de Guardo 1,059 31.2 %
Cea 768 6.9 %
Fresno del Río 61 1.4 %
Valderrueda 32 0.2 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.

What burned

Coniferous forest 40.1 %
Agricultural areas 16.2 %
Broadleaved forest 14.6 %
Mixed forest 12.1 %
Other natural land 9.3 %
Scrub and transitional woodland 5.0 %
Sclerophyllous scrub 2.7 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 11.8 %