Boca de Huérgano fire, August 2025
The fire started on 14 August 2025 in Boca de Huérgano, Spain, and burned for 12 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 19,112 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 7 municipalities.
Burnt area
19,112
hectares
Duration
12
days
Municipalities hit
7
Started on
14 Aug
2025
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boca de Huérgano where it started | 14,429 | 49.4 % | |
| Burón | 2,716 | 17.2 % | |
| Posada de Valdeón | 1,586 | 9.7 % | |
| Riaño | 282 | 2.9 % | |
| Velilla del Río Carrión | 96 | 0.5 % | |
| Camaleño | 43 | 0.3 % | |
| Vega de Liébana | 13 | 0.1 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Other natural land
84.3 %
Broadleaved forest
13.2 %
Coniferous forest
1.0 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
0.8 %
Mixed forest
0.5 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100.0 %