Cualedro fire, August 2025
The fire started on 13 August 2025 in Cualedro, Spain, and burned for 7 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 24,471 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 9 municipalities.
Burnt area
24,471
hectares
Duration
7
days
Municipalities hit
9
Started on
13 Aug
2025
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monterrei | 10,003 | 84.0 % | |
| Cualedro where it started | 7,269 | 61.8 % | |
| Laza | 2,855 | 13.2 % | |
| Oímbra | 2,829 | 39.6 % | |
| Xinzo de Limia | 754 | 5.7 % | |
| Trasmiras | 408 | 7.2 % | |
| Baltar | 236 | 2.5 % | |
| Verín | 119 | 1.3 % | |
| Castrelo do Val | 16 | 0.1 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Other natural land
44.7 %
Agricultural areas
24.7 %
Coniferous forest
12.8 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
12.2 %
Broadleaved forest
4.4 %
Mixed forest
1.0 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 0.0 %