How long did the Caudiel fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 17 June 2022 and 17 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 148 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Caudiel (144 ha, 2.3 %); Jérica (4 ha, 0.0 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.2 km of Caudiel. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.

ES · Spain · 2022-06-17 → 2022-06-17

Caudiel fire, June 2022 Caudiel, Jérica

Out · last detection 17 Jun 2022, 13:09 UTC

The fire started on 17 June 2022 in Caudiel, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 148 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 13th largest in Castelló / Castellón since 2016 (of 13 with a page). Number 128 in Spain in 2022, of 196.

Burnt area: 148ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 17 Jun 2022 – 17 Jun 2022
Municipalities hit: 2; municipalities
Started on: 17 Jun; 2022
Heat detections: 8; in a single hotspot: 49 MW
Danger at start: 30; High · FWI index
Energy released: 247MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Jun17 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

35°high

32km/h · peak gust

25%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.8 mm on 21 Jun.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

Caudiel 735 inhabitants · 0.2 km from the town where it started

144 ha reached on 17 Jun

2.3 %
Jérica 1,764 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town

4 ha reached on 17 Jun

0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

Sclerophyllous scrub48 %
Agricultural areas39 %
Coniferous forest14 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 0 %

ZEPA Serra d'Espadà (ZEPA) ES0000468

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.

Official record

According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 17 June 2022 and burned 98 ha (the satellite measured 148 ha). The two figures differ a lot, so these may not be exactly the same fire: take them as nearby records.

Caudiel Monte Royo 17 June 2022 · 12:26 98 ha · extinguished on 27 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.

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)
17 Jun	35.2 °C	25 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
18 Jun after	33.6 °C	25 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
19 Jun after	29.3 °C	50 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
20 Jun after	30.2 °C	42 %	38 km/h	0.6 mm	High 23
21 Jun after	29.6 °C	40 %	40 km/h	6.8 mm	Very low 5

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 10 Jun 2022

After · 24 Jun 2022

Before After

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 15 June 2022 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1028 µg/m³

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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 · 8Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Caudiel fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 17 June 2022 and 17 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 148 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Caudiel (144 ha, 2.3 %); Jérica (4 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.2 km of Caudiel. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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

MITECO · Incendios forestales ↗
Protección Civil ↗

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned