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Cipérez fire, August 2025 Villaseco de los Reyes, Puertas, Espadaña

Out · last detection 16 Aug 2025, 02:14 UTC

The fire started on 13 August 2025 in Espadaña, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 10,823 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 7 municipalities.

It is the largest fire in Salamanca since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 10 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

Burnt area
10,823ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
13 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
7
municipalities
Started on
13 Aug
2025
Heat detections
130
in a single hotspot: 116 MW
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

16 Aug 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Aug16 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

131516

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

The weather it burned in

37°high
50km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 40 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. Villaseco de los Reyes 296 inhabitants · 0.0 km from the town
    2,971 ha reached on 16 Aug
    22 %
  2. Puertas 66 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town
    2,092 ha reached on 16 Aug
    33 %
  3. Espadaña 32 inhabitants · 0.8 km from the town where it started
    1,979 ha reached on 16 Aug
    50 %
  4. Cipérez 233 inhabitants · 0.6 km from the town
    1,493 ha reached on 13 Aug
    14 %
  5. Tremedal de Tormes 34 inhabitants · 1.3 km from the town
    1,059 ha reached on 16 Aug
    32 %
  6. Peralejos de Arriba 38 inhabitants · 5.1 km from the town
    680 ha reached on 16 Aug
    21 %
  7. Villar de Peralonso 212 inhabitants · 1.9 km from the town
    559 ha
    18 %

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

  • Agricultural areas59 %
  • Other natural land30 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland5.5 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub3.4 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.2 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

Checked against the press

Checked on 29 September 2026

We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:

Also known as
incendio de Cipérez · incendio de San Cristóbal de los Mochuelos · incendio de Villaseco de los Reyes
Official area reported: 11,558 ha (the satellite measured 10,823 ha)
Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 24 August 2025

Sources

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)
13 Aug 33.4 °C 20 % 50 km/h 0.6 mm Very high 47
14 Aug 35.4 °C 16 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
15 Aug 36.1 °C 13 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
16 Aug 37.2 °C 13 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
17 Aug after 35.8 °C 17 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
18 Aug after 28.8 °C 19 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
19 Aug after 26.4 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
20 Aug after 25.6 °C 23 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
21 Aug after 26.1 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
22 Aug after 27.8 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
23 Aug after 30.6 °C 20 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Aug after 31.5 °C 15 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
25 Aug after 32.0 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
26 Aug after 30.9 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Aug 2025
After · 23 Aug 2025

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 18 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 101 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 53: 3.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak101 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM10156 µg/m³
Optical depth1.11
111213141516171819
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 · 130Every 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 Cipérez fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 13 August 2025 and 16 August 2025: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 10,823 hectares (108.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 7 municipalities: Villaseco de los Reyes (2,971 ha, 22 %); Puertas (2,092 ha, 33 %); Espadaña (1,979 ha, 50 %); Cipérez (1,493 ha, 14 %); Tremedal de Tormes (1,059 ha, 32 %); Peralejos de Arriba (680 ha, 21 %); Villar de Peralonso (559 ha, 18 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.0 km of Villaseco de los Reyes. 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 37.2 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 60, 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

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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.