Cáceres fire, July 2025 Cáceres
The fire started on 16 July 2025 in Cáceres, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 138 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 62th largest in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 137 in Spain in 2025, of 158.
- Burnt area
- 138ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 16 Jul 2025 – 16 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 16 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 8
- in a single hotspot: 59 MW
- Danger at start
- 54
- Extreme · FWI index
- Energy released
- 220MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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138 ha reached on 16 Jul0.1 %
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
- Agricultural areas97 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub2.9 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 98 %
- ZEPA Llanos de Cáceres y Sierra de Fuentes ES0000071
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul | 40.3 °C | 13 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 17 Jul after | 36.5 °C | 18 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 18 Jul after | 30.8 °C | 24 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 19 Jul after | 30.2 °C | 27 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 20 Jul after | 27.9 °C | 35 % | 44 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 40 |
| 21 Jul after | 30.9 °C | 20 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 22 Jul after | 33.8 °C | 22 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 23 Jul after | 29.9 °C | 26 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 24 Jul after | 32.9 °C | 18 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 25 Jul after | 32.5 °C | 17 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 26 Jul after | 35.9 °C | 16 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 16 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 9 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 8Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,671 haCáceresJuly 2016 · 1 day · 6 km away
- 1,214 haAldea del Cano CáceresAugust 2025 · 3 days · 13 km away
- 3,739 haAliseda CáceresAugust 2025 · 4 days · 14 km away
- 3,614 haCasar de CáceresAugust 2025 · 2 days · 15 km away
- 1,055 haPlasenzuela CáceresJune 2025 · 2 days · 27 km away
- 921 haTalavánJuly 2024 · 1 day · 27 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Cáceres fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 16 July 2025 and 16 July 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 138 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Cáceres (138 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 14.0 km of Cáceres. 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 40.3 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.
- 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.