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 %