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Entrimo fire, September 2016 Entrimo, Lobios

Out · last detection 10 Sept 2016, 03:14 UTC

The fire started on 7 September 2016 in Entrimo, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 3,074 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 6 September 2016 at 18:46 and declared extinguished on 13 September 2016.

It is the 10th largest in Ourense since 2016 (of 118 with a page). Number 3 in Spain in 2016, of 69.

Burnt area
3,074ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
7 Sept 2016 – 9 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
7 Sept
2016
Heat detections
163
in a single hotspot: 230 MW
Danger at start
24
High · FWI index
Energy released
3.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Sept 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Sept9 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

78910

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

The weather it burned in

27°high
52km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 43.2 mm on 13 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Entrimo 1,093 inhabitants · 0.0 km from the town where it started
    2,159 ha reached on 7 Sept
    26 %
  2. Lobios 1,776 inhabitants · 6.5 km from the town
    916 ha reached on 7 Sept
    5.4 %

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

  • Other natural land69 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland27 %
  • Broadleaved forest3.0 %
  • Agricultural areas0.6 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 95 %

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 6 September 2016 and burned 2,974 ha (the satellite measured 3,074 ha).

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.

Checked against the press

Checked on 30 September 2026

We checked this page against 3 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:

Also known as
Incendio de Entrimo y Lobios · Incendio de A Ílla · Incendios de Ourense de septiembre 2016
Official area reported: 2,800 ha (the satellite measured 3,074 ha)

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)
7 Sept 27.2 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
8 Sept 22.2 °C 43 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
9 Sept 23.0 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
10 Sept after 23.4 °C 55 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
11 Sept after 25.5 °C 45 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
12 Sept after 25.1 °C 43 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
13 Sept after 16.3 °C 71 % 65 km/h 43.2 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Aug 2016
After · 16 Sept 2016

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 7 September 2016 the air beside the fire reached 137 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 91: 6.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak137 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM10175 µg/m³
56789101112131415
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 · 163Every 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 Entrimo fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 7 September 2016 and 9 September 2016: 3 days between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 6 September 2016 at 18:46 and declared extinguished on 13 September 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 3,074 hectares (30.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Entrimo (2,159 ha, 26 %); Lobios (916 ha, 5.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.0 km of Entrimo. 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 27.2 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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

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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.