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Castuera fire, June 2026 Castuera, Benquerencia de la Serena, Zalamea de la Serena

Out · last detection 28 Jun 2026, 13:19 UTC

The fire started on 28 June 2026 in Castuera, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 222 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities.

It is the 27th largest in Badajoz since 2016 (of 52 with a page). Number 100 in Spain in 2026, of 195.

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Burnt area
222ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 1day
28 Jun 2026 – 28 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
4
municipalities
Started on
28 Jun
2026
Heat detections
11
in a single hotspot: 117 MW
Danger at start
38
High · FWI index
Average daily power
484MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Jun28 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

28 Jun 2026 · 484 MW · 11

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
30km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 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. Castuera 2,157 inhabitants · 11.0 km from the centre where it started
    102 ha reached on 28 Jun
    0.2 %
  2. Benquerencia de la Serena
    62 ha reached on 28 Jun
    0.6 %
  3. Zalamea de la Serena 3,371 inhabitants · 8.5 km from the centre
    49 ha reached on 28 Jun
    0.2 %
  4. Esparragosa de la Serena 912 inhabitants · 3.5 km from the centre
    8 ha reached on 28 Jun
    0.4 %

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

  • Broadleaved forest71 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub21 %
  • Agricultural areas8.0 %

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)
28 Jun 32.5 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
29 Jun after 34.5 °C 18 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
30 Jun after 36.7 °C 16 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
1 Jul after 37.9 °C 16 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
2 Jul after 36.4 °C 17 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
3 Jul after 36.6 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
4 Jul after 37.7 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
5 Jul after 38.1 °C 15 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
6 Jul after 37.6 °C 16 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
7 Jul after 37.8 °C 13 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
8 Jul after 37.9 °C 11 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Jun 2026
After · 5 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 30 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 7 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak7 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1012 µg/m³
Optical depth0.16
26272829301
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 · 11Every 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 Castuera fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (28 June 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 28 June 2026 (1 day from 28 June 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 222 hectares (2.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 4 municipalities: Castuera (102 ha, 0.2 %); Benquerencia de la Serena (62 ha, 0.6 %); Zalamea de la Serena (49 ha, 0.2 %); Esparragosa de la Serena (8 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 3.5 km of the centre of Esparragosa de la Serena, 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 32.5 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class 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.
  • 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. 11 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.