Castejón de Tornos fire, June 2022 Burbáguena, Castejón de Tornos, Báguena
The fire started on 20 June 2022 in Castejón de Tornos, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,796 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities.
Number 30 in Spain in 2022, of 192.
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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
- 1,796ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 20 Jun 2022 – 20 Jun 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 4
- municipalities
- Started on
- 20 Jun
- 2022
- Danger at start
- 62
- Extreme · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.9 mm on 21 Jun.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Burbáguena 396 inhabitants · 0.5 km from the centre1,227 ha31 %
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353 ha11 %
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Báguena 278 inhabitants · 0.9 km from the centre215 ha8.5 %
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Tornos 175 inhabitants · 3.9 km from the centre2 ha0.0 %
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
- Sclerophyllous scrub48 %
- Agricultural areas22 %
- Broadleaved forest13 %
- Coniferous forest10 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland6.6 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Official record
According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 20 June 2022 and burned 1,381 ha (the satellite measured 1,796 ha). The two figures differ a lot, so these may not be exactly the same fire: take them as nearby records.
- Tornos Fuente del Villar 20 June 2022 · 14:55 1,381 ha · extinguished on 25 June 2022 · cause: negligence
MITECO, Estadística General de Incendios Forestales (EGIF). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.
Checked against the press
Checked on 30 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Incendio de Burbáguena · Incendio de Castejón
- Official area reported: 2,000 ha (the satellite measured 1,796 ha)
- Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 21 June 2022
Sources
- Controlado el incendio de Castejón de Tornos — Aragón Hoy (Gobierno de Aragón), 21 June 2022 · official source
- Finalizados los trabajos de restauración del incendio de Castejón de Tornos de 2022, que también afectó a Báguena y Burbáguena — Eco de Teruel, 12 February 2025
- La lluvia ayuda a controlar definitivamente el incendio declarado en Castejón de Tornos — Diario de Teruel, 21 June 2022
- El incendio de Castejón de Tornos, estabilizado tras quemar 1.800 hectáreas y obligar a desalojos — Aragón TV (Aragón Noticias), 20 June 2022
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jun | 30.8 °C | 16 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 21 Jun after | 29.1 °C | 11 % | 41 km/h | 1.9 mm | High 36 |
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 18 June 2022 the air beside the fire reached 12 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)
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Castejón de Tornos fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 20 June 2022 and 20 June 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 1,796 hectares (18.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 4 municipalities: Burbáguena (1,227 ha, 31 %); Castejón de Tornos (353 ha, 11 %); Báguena (215 ha, 8.5 %); Tornos (2 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 0.5 km of the centre of Burbáguena, the closest of the areas it touched. 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 30.8 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, 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 · 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.
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.
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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.
- Compared with EGIF (MITECO): 1,381 official ha against 1,796 ha of perimeter; similar, but with reservations.
- Checked against news and agencies: 4 confirmed sources.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.