Fuente de Cantos fire, August 2025
The fire started on 14 August 2025 in Fuente de Cantos, Spain, and burned for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 5,829 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 5 municipalities.
Burnt area
5,829
hectares
Duration
3
days
Municipalities hit
5
Started on
14 Aug
2025
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llerena | 3,549 | 21.8 % | |
| Montemolín | 942 | 4.6 % | |
| Fuente de Cantos where it started | 763 | 3.0 % | |
| Bienvenida | 399 | 4.3 % | |
| Villagarcía de la Torre | 192 | 2.8 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Agricultural areas
70.8 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
12.4 %
Broadleaved forest
8.0 %
Sclerophyllous scrub
5.0 %
Coniferous forest
3.1 %
Mixed forest
0.6 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 7.4 %