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Gallegos del Río fire, August 2025

The fire started on 12 August 2025 in Gallegos del Río, Spain, and burned for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 4,317 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 6 municipalities.

Burnt area
4,317
hectares
Duration
3
days
Municipalities hit
6
Started on
12 Aug
2025

The burnt perimeter

What happened to each town

Municipality Hectares % of its area
Riofrío de Aliste 1,746 15.7 %
Gallegos del Río where it started 1,304 16.7 %
Ferreruela 780 8.3 %
Losacio 303 13.8 %
Vegalatrave 174 9.4 %
San Vicente de la Cabeza 15 0.3 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.

What burned

Sclerophyllous scrub 40.2 %
Agricultural areas 32.3 %
Other natural land 18.2 %
Scrub and transitional woodland 6.7 %
Broadleaved forest 1.4 %
Coniferous forest 0.7 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 0.4 %