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Cáceres fire, August 2025 Cáceres

Out · last measured on 16 Aug 2025

The fire started on 15 August 2025 in Cáceres, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 160 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 56th largest in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 125 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
160ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
15 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
15 Aug
2025
Danger at start
51
Extreme · FWI index
Natura 2000
98%
of the perimeter is protected land

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

41°high
32km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 51 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

  1. Cáceres 4,511 inhabitants · 6.3 km from the town where it started
    161 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 land100 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 98 %

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)
15 Aug 40.1 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
16 Aug 41.0 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 47
17 Aug after 40.8 °C 18 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 55
18 Aug after 33.6 °C 20 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
19 Aug after 32.0 °C 23 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
20 Aug after 30.5 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
21 Aug after 31.9 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
22 Aug after 34.0 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
23 Aug after 35.1 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
24 Aug after 33.5 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
25 Aug after 35.2 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
26 Aug after 36.1 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Aug 2025
After · 23 Aug 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 18 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 103 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 58: 3.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak103 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM10151 µg/m³
Optical depth0.72
13141516171819
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 Cáceres fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 August 2025 and 16 August 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 160 hectares (1.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Cáceres (161 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.3 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 41.0 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, 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.