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Cantillana fire, July 2022 Cantillana

Out · last measured on 21 Jul 2022

The fire started on 21 July 2022 in Cantillana, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 328 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 6th largest in Sevilla since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 83 in Spain in 2022, of 196.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
328ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
21 Jul 2022 – 21 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
21 Jul
2022
Danger at start
48
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

39°high
27km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months 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. Cantillana 10,780 inhabitants · 3.6 km from the centre where it started
    329 ha
    3.1 %

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 scrub54 %
  • Agricultural areas46 %

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)
21 Jul 39.3 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
22 Jul after 41.0 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
23 Jul after 42.3 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
24 Jul after 42.3 °C 12 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
25 Jul after 42.6 °C 10 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
26 Jul after 39.8 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
27 Jul after 35.4 °C 26 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
28 Jul after 37.1 °C 25 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
29 Jul after 38.4 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
30 Jul after 38.4 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
31 Jul after 40.2 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Jul 2022
After · 28 Jul 2022

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 22 July 2022 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1056 µg/m³
192021222324
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 Cantillana fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 21 July 2022 and 21 July 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 328 hectares (3.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Cantillana (329 ha, 3.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Cantillana and came within 3.6 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 39.3 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, 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.

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 ›

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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. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • 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.