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 %