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Burguillos fire, June 2025 Castilblanco de los Arroyos, Burguillos

Out · last detection 11 Jun 2025, 14:13 UTC

The fire started on 10 June 2025 in Burguillos, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,443 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 2th largest in Sevilla since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 38 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

The power measured by the satellite is low (12.0 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
1,443ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
10 Jun 2025 – 11 Jun 2025
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
10 Jun
2025
Heat detections
10
in a single hotspot: 12 MW
Danger at start
20
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
36MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jun11 Jun
11 Jun 2025

How it evolved, day by day

10 Jun 2025 · 59 MW · 8 11 Jun 2025 · 12 MW · 2
10 Jun 11 Jun

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high
54km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone 36 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 10 ha in 2020.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.9% of the area of London (14 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Castilblanco de los Arroyos 5,145 inhabitants · 3.2 km from the centre
    763 ha reached on 10 Jun
    2.4 %
  2. Burguillos 7,448 inhabitants · 2.7 km from the centre where it started
    682 ha reached on 10 Jun
    16 %

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

  • Sclerophyllous scrub42 %
  • Agricultural areas41 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland7.5 %
  • Other natural land7.2 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.4 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

Checked against the press

Checked on 30 September 2026

We checked this page against 3 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:

Also known as
Incendio forestal de Burguillos · Incendio de Burguillos y Castilblanco (Sevilla)

Sources

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)
10 Jun 31.6 °C 38 % 54 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 20
11 Jun 28.2 °C 39 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 21
12 Jun after 30.7 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
13 Jun after 33.2 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
14 Jun after 33.9 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
15 Jun after 34.6 °C 25 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
16 Jun after 37.3 °C 27 % 41 km/h 0.4 mm High 38
17 Jun after 37.6 °C 21 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
18 Jun after 36.6 °C 23 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
19 Jun after 37.0 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.2 mm High 34
20 Jun after 37.7 °C 20 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
21 Jun after 35.8 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 3 Jun 2025
After · 18 Jun 2025

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 · Copernicus

On 10 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak19 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1067 µg/m³
Optical depth0.62
891011121314
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 10Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Burguillos fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 10 June 2025 and 11 June 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,443 hectares (14.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Castilblanco de los Arroyos (763 ha, 2.4 %); Burguillos (682 ha, 16 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Burguillos and came within 2.7 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 31.6 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class High.
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.

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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. 10 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Checked against news and agencies: 3 confirmed sources.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.