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Burón fire, September 2025 Burón, Oseja de Sajambre, Ponga

Out · last measured on 7 Sept 2025

The fire started on 6 September 2025 in Burón, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 732 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 25th largest in León since 2016 (of 86 with a page). Number 53 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
732ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
6 Sept 2025 – 7 Sept 2025
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
6 Sept
2025
Danger at start
12
Moderate · FWI index
Natura 2000
100%
of the perimeter is protected land

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

23°high
67km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.3 mm on 8 Sept.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Burón 282 inhabitants · 6.9 km from the town where it started
    562 ha
    3.6 %
  2. Oseja de Sajambre 214 inhabitants · 4.5 km from the town
    142 ha
    2.0 %
  3. Ponga 576 inhabitants · 9.0 km from the town
    30 ha
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land95 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.6 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %

Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.

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

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)
6 Sept 23.2 °C 27 % 63 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
7 Sept 17.6 °C 42 % 67 km/h 4.5 mm Very low 1
8 Sept after 10.6 °C 79 % 28 km/h 7.3 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Aug 2025
After · 14 Sept 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 9 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1022 µg/m³
Optical depth0.43
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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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Burón fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 September 2025 and 7 September 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 732 hectares (7.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Burón (562 ha, 3.6 %); Oseja de Sajambre (142 ha, 2.0 %); Ponga (30 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 4.5 km of Oseja de Sajambre. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 23.2 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, class Moderate.
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

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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.