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Caminomorisco fire, July 2025 Caminomorisco, Pinofranqueado, Nuñomoral

Out · last detection 31 Jul 2025, 02:14 UTC

The fire started on 29 July 2025 in Caminomorisco, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,694 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 10th largest in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 27 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

Burnt area
2,694ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
29 Jul 2025 – 31 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
29 Jul
2025
Heat detections
140
in a single hotspot: 65 MW
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
417MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jul31 Jul
31 Jul 2025

How it evolved, day by day

29 Jul 2025 · 171 MW · 4 30 Jul 2025 · 1,063 MW · 130 31 Jul 2025 · 18 MW · 6
29 Jul 30 Jul 31 Jul

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
49km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 7 ha in 2023.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1.7% of the area of London (27 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. Caminomorisco 1,097 inhabitants · fire reached the centre where it started
    2,395 ha reached on 29 Jul
    16 %
  2. Pinofranqueado 1,783 inhabitants · 2.4 km from the centre
    300 ha reached on 30 Jul
    2.0 %
  3. Nuñomoral 1,196 inhabitants · 3.9 km from the centre
    1 ha reached on 30 Jul
    0.0 %

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

  • Scrub and transitional woodland36 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub26 %
  • Other natural land20 %
  • Mixed forest11 %
  • Agricultural areas3.3 %
  • Coniferous forest2.7 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 0 %

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.

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 de Las Hurdes · Incendio de Caminomorisco
Official area reported: 2,778 ha (the satellite measured 2,694 ha)
Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 2 August 2025

Sources

Official figures are measured differently from satellite ones and sometimes cover only part of the fire.

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)
29 Jul 31.4 °C 20 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
30 Jul 31.2 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
31 Jul 32.4 °C 19 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
1 Aug after 32.3 °C 22 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
2 Aug after 33.3 °C 20 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
3 Aug after 35.1 °C 18 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Aug after 35.2 °C 17 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
5 Aug after 35.7 °C 20 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
6 Aug after 33.6 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
7 Aug after 34.9 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
8 Aug after 34.1 °C 23 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
9 Aug after 35.3 °C 18 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
10 Aug after 35.8 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 46.7, a minimum humidity of 20% and 29 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 26.

FWI at the start 46.7
Minimum humidity 20 %
Days without rain 29
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Gouveia fire, August 2016
184 ha 2 days FWI 46.2 Min. humidity 19 % 122 km away, in 2016

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

What happened to them

2 days
median duration
489 ha
median area
23 %
went past 1,000 ha
2.3 mm
rain at the end (median; 13 of 26 had it)

It was 5.5 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 3 days, against 2 days.

Only 3 of its 26 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 13 of 26, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.3 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
49km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 31 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 13 of 26, with a median of 2.3 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Jul 2025
After · 7 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 1 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 287 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 113: 7.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak287 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM10320 µg/m³
Optical depth0.54
27 Jul29 Jul31 Jul2 Aug
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 · 140Every 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 Caminomorisco fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 29 July 2025 and 31 July 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,694 hectares (26.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Caminomorisco (2,395 ha, 16 %); Pinofranqueado (300 ha, 2.0 %); Nuñomoral (1 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Caminomorisco and reached its centre: the point marking it was inside the burnt area or less than 500 metres from it. That does not mean houses burned.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.4 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 26. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 489 ha; 23 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 3 of its 26 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 13 of 26, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.3 mm.

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.

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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. 140 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.