Encinedo fire, August 2017
The fire started on 21 August 2017 in Encinedo, Spain, and burned for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 10,927 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 5 municipalities.
Burnt area
10,927
hectares
Duration
6
days
Municipalities hit
5
Started on
21 Aug
2017
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Encinedo where it started | 7,116 | 36.5 % | |
| Truchas | 3,601 | 11.9 % | |
| Castrillo de Cabrera | 187 | 1.6 % | |
| San Justo | 33 | 0.4 % | |
| Rosinos de la Requejada | 7 | 0.0 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Other natural land
72.9 %
Broadleaved forest
11.8 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
8.9 %
Coniferous forest
4.2 %
Agricultural areas
1.1 %
Mixed forest
0.6 %
Artificial surfaces
0.5 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 14.9 %