Skip to content
worldfires
en
ES · Spain ·

Casas de Millán fire, July 2026 Casas de Millán

Out · last detection 10 Jul 2026, 03:32 UTC

The fire started on 10 July 2026 in Casas de Millán, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 187 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 47th largest in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 115 in Spain in 2026, of 196.

Compare with…

Suggestions: Valdeverdeja · 2023Villarejo del Valle · 2022Casas de Millán · 2026Talaván · 2024

Burnt area
187ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 1day
10 Jul 2026 – 10 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
10 Jul
2026
Heat detections
15
in a single hotspot: 33 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
122MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jul10 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

10 Jul 2026 · 122 MW · 15

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

34°high
28km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 15 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. Casas de Millán 536 inhabitants · 1.4 km from the centre where it started
    187 ha reached on 10 Jul
    1.2 %

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 scrub79 %
  • Agricultural areas21 %

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)

Started with Very dry air: 15 % of the area in Spain

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
10 Jul 34.1 °C 14 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Jul after 33.2 °C 21 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Jul after 27.5 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Jul after 29.5 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
14 Jul after 31.9 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Jul after 31.9 °C 23 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
16 Jul after 32.1 °C 20 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
17 Jul after 31.1 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 Jul after 31.9 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
19 Jul after 32.2 °C 20 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
20 Jul after 31.0 °C 20 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 39.0, a minimum humidity of 14% and 15 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 15.

FWI at the start 39.0
Minimum humidity 14 %
Days without rain 15
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Valdeverdeja fire, July 2023
135 ha 1 day FWI 40.9 Min. humidity 14 % 89 km away, in 2023

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

See its page Compare with this fire

What happened to them

1 day
median duration
303 ha
median area
13 %
went past 1,000 ha
1.3 mm
rain at the end (median; 5 of 15 had it)

It stayed below its twins: 187 ha against a median of 303 ha. It lasted 1 day, against 1 day.

In 10 of 15, 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 1.3 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
28km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 10 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 5 of 15, with a median of 1.3 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 · 3 Jul 2026
After · 17 Jul 2026

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 11 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1022 µg/m³
Optical depth0.27
8 Jul10 Jul12 Jul
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 · 15Every 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

Other fires nearby

All fires in Spain

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Casas de Millán fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (10 July 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 10 July 2026 (1 day from 10 July 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 187 hectares (1.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Casas de Millán (187 ha, 1.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Casas de Millán and came within 1.4 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 34.1 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, 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: 15. Their median duration was 1 day and their median area 303 ha; 13 % went past 1,000 ha. In 10 of 15, 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 1.3 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.

No changes since 24 October 2026.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

Does something look wrong on this page?

This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.

Report an error
What do you think is wrong?

We will only use your email to reply about this report. Privacy. This is not an emergency service: if there is a fire now, call 112.

How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 15 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.