Chandrexa de Queixa fire, August 2025 Chandrexa de Queixa, Vilariño de Conso, Manzaneda
The fire started on 8 August 2025 in Chandrexa de Queixa, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 20 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 30,754 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 10 municipalities.
It is the 2th largest in Ourense since 2016 (of 118 with a page). Number 3 in Spain in 2025, of 158.
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- Burnt area
- 30,754ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 20days
- 8 Aug 2025 – 27 Aug 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 10
- municipalities
- Started on
- 8 Aug
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 2,227
- in a single hotspot: 526 MW
- Danger at start
- 29
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 2.5GW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
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
It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 28 Aug.
This area had burned before
31% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 48 ha in 2016, 2,732 ha in 2017, 249 ha in 2019, 2,918 ha in 2020, 200 ha in 2021, 3,566 ha in 2022, 111 ha in 2023, 70 ha in 2024.
- 3,310 ha Vilariño de Conso fire, July 2022 7,090 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 801 ha Chandrexa de Queixa fire, September 2020 823 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 705 ha Chandrexa de Queixa fire, September 2020 732 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 646 ha Maceda fire, October 2017 712 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 597 ha Vilariño de Conso fire, September 2020 861 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 500 ha Montederramo fire, October 2017 631 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 426 ha Vilariño de Conso fire, October 2017 426 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 394 ha Chandrexa de Queixa fire, August 2017 394 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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9,802 ha reached on 8 Aug57 %
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Vilariño de Conso 501 inhabitants · 1.2 km from the centre6,725 ha reached on 9 Aug34 %
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Manzaneda 767 inhabitants · 0.8 km from the centre5,346 ha reached on 9 Aug47 %
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A Pobra de Trives 1,929 inhabitants · 3.3 km from the centre3,139 ha reached on 13 Aug37 %
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Montederramo 660 inhabitants · 2.0 km from the centre2,643 ha reached on 11 Aug19 %
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Maceda 2,874 inhabitants · 6.1 km from the centre2,314 ha reached on 10 Aug23 %
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Laza 1,156 inhabitants · 12.3 km from the centre303 ha reached on 9 Aug1.4 %
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Vilar de Barrio 1,178 inhabitants · 7.5 km from the centre258 ha reached on 12 Aug2.4 %
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Viana do Bolo 2,715 inhabitants · 7.0 km from the centre235 ha reached on 11 Aug0.9 %
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O Bolo 789 inhabitants · 8.8 km from the centre0 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
- Other natural land75 %
- Broadleaved forest11 %
- Agricultural areas6.4 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland4.3 %
- Coniferous forest3.8 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 99 %
- LIC Bidueiral de Montederramo ES1130003
- LIC Macizo Central ES1130002
- LIC Pena Trevinca ES1130007
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 8.2 hectares of built-up land and about 250 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
Checked against the press
Checked on 29 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Incendio de Chandrexa de Queixa · Incendio de Chandrexa y Vilariño · Incendio de Requeixo
- According to the sources, several fires that ended up merging:
- Requeixo (Chandrexa de Queixa) 8 August 2025 4,500 ha
- Parafita (Chandrexa de Queixa) 12 August 2025 500 ha
- Mormentelos (Vilariño de Conso) 14 August 2025
- Castro de Escuadro (Maceda) 10 August 2025 3,500 ha
- Santiso (Maceda) 12 August 2025
- Declared stabilised: 25 August 2025
Sources
- Fin de la pesadilla: los tres megaincendios que asolaron Galicia este verano, finalmente extinguidos — Diario do Tamega, 31 August 2025
- Estabilizado el incendio de Chandrexa y Vilariño, el segundo más grande de la historia de Galicia — El Espanol (Treintayseis), 25 August 2025
- Estabilizado el incendio de Chandrexa y Vilariño, activo desde el 8 de agosto — Galicia Press, 25 August 2025
- Estabilizado el incendio de Maceda tras más de una semana activo — OurenseXa, 19 August 2025
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Aug | 27.4 °C | 26 % | 32 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 29 |
| 9 Aug | 27.6 °C | 27 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 10 Aug | 28.3 °C | 21 % | 40 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 33 |
| 11 Aug | 26.8 °C | 25 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 12 Aug | 26.2 °C | 25 % | 53 km/h | 2.3 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 13 Aug | 24.3 °C | 34 % | 38 km/h | 1.2 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 14 Aug | 26.5 °C | 28 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 15 Aug | 26.8 °C | 24 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 16 Aug | 27.2 °C | 21 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 17 Aug | 25.3 °C | 33 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 18 Aug | 18.8 °C | 43 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 19 Aug | 17.1 °C | 45 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 20 Aug | 15.6 °C | 48 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 21 Aug | 18.2 °C | 43 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 22 Aug | 21.4 °C | 35 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 23 Aug | 23.0 °C | 28 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 24 Aug | 22.5 °C | 33 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 25 Aug | 23.4 °C | 33 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 26 Aug | 19.9 °C | 37 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 27 Aug | 13.7 °C | 53 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 28 Aug after | 13.3 °C | 47 % | 42 km/h | 1.4 mm | Low 10 |
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 17 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 194 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 95: 6.3 times the WHO daily 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)
Detections table · 2,227Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 7,090 haVilariño de ConsoJuly 2022 · 10 days · 4 km away
- 3,634 haLazaAugust 2022 · 7 days · 11 km away
- 12,026 haA MezquitaAugust 2025 · 9 days · 26 km away
- 37,831 haLarouco Vilamartín de ValdeorrasAugust 2025 · 15 days · 33 km away
- 24,471 haMonterreiAugust 2025 · 8 days · 35 km away
- 12,735 haCarballeda de ValdeorrasJuly 2022 · 8 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Chandrexa de Queixa fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 8 August 2025 to 27 August 2025 (20 days). The perimeter dates it from 8 August 2025 to 21 August 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 30,754 hectares (307.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 10 municipalities: Chandrexa de Queixa (9,802 ha, 57 %); Vilariño de Conso (6,725 ha, 34 %); Manzaneda (5,346 ha, 47 %); A Pobra de Trives (3,139 ha, 37 %); Montederramo (2,643 ha, 19 %); Maceda (2,314 ha, 23 %); Laza (303 ha, 1.4 %); Vilar de Barrio (258 ha, 2.4 %); Viana do Bolo (235 ha, 0.9 %); O Bolo (0 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Chandrexa de Queixa and reached its centre: the point marking it was inside the burnt area or less than 500 metres from it. That does not mean houses burned.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.3 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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 ›
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.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 4 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 8 August 2025 to 21 August 2025. 2,227 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Checked against news and agencies: 4 confirmed sources.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.