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Jarilla fire, August 2025 Cabezabellosa, Hervás, Navaconcejo

Out · last detection 21 Aug 2025, 02:20 UTC

The fire started on 13 August 2025 in Jarilla, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 17,317 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 18 municipalities.

It is the largest fire in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 8 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

Burnt area
17,317ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
9days
13 Aug 2025 – 21 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
18
municipalities
Started on
13 Aug
2025
Heat detections
1,401
in a single hotspot: 164 MW
Danger at start
42
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
2.6GW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

21 Aug 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Aug21 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

13 Aug 2025 · 1,002 MW · 79 14 Aug 2025 · 2,429 MW · 282 15 Aug 2025 · 2,307 MW · 95 16 Aug 2025 · 3,613 MW · 165 17 Aug 2025 · 7,113 MW · 339 18 Aug 2025 · 2,566 MW · 191 19 Aug 2025 · 2,429 MW · 176 20 Aug 2025 · 2,048 MW · 70 21 Aug 2025 · 34 MW · 4
13 Aug 15 Aug 17 Aug 19 Aug 21 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
50km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 31 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

10% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,443 ha in 2017, 76 ha in 2018, 42 ha in 2019, 70 ha in 2020, 86 ha in 2021, 24 ha in 2022, 49 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Cabezabellosa 317 inhabitants · 0.0 km from the town
    2,389 ha reached on 13 Aug
    71 %
  2. Hervás 3,898 inhabitants · 1.5 km from the town
    2,331 ha reached on 17 Aug
    39 %
  3. Navaconcejo 2,037 inhabitants · 1.0 km from the town
    2,114 ha reached on 16 Aug
    41 %
  4. Cabezuela del Valle 2,049 inhabitants · 2.1 km from the town
    1,713 ha reached on 17 Aug
    30 %
  5. Jerte 1,189 inhabitants · 1.4 km from the town
    1,607 ha reached on 17 Aug
    27 %
  6. Jarilla 127 inhabitants · 0.0 km from the town where it started
    1,506 ha reached on 13 Aug
    53 %
  7. Gargantilla 346 inhabitants · 1.7 km from the town
    1,080 ha reached on 16 Aug
    52 %
  8. Casas del Monte 761 inhabitants · 1.8 km from the town
    1,063 ha reached on 14 Aug
    39 %
  9. Villar de Plasencia 224 inhabitants · 0.1 km from the town
    695 ha reached on 14 Aug
    28 %
  10. Tornavacas 989 inhabitants · 2.9 km from the town
    549 ha reached on 19 Aug
    7.2 %
  11. Oliva de Plasencia 290 inhabitants · 2.9 km from the town
    444 ha reached on 14 Aug
    5.0 %
  12. El Torno 805 inhabitants · 0.6 km from the town
    415 ha reached on 13 Aug
    19 %
  13. Segura de Toro 190 inhabitants · 2.0 km from the town
    406 ha reached on 16 Aug
    27 %
  14. Plasencia 40,132 inhabitants · 6.0 km from the town
    335 ha reached on 15 Aug
    1.5 %
  15. Rebollar 203 inhabitants · 0.9 km from the town
    292 ha reached on 15 Aug
    25 %
  16. Candelario 832 inhabitants · 7.8 km from the town
    235 ha reached on 19 Aug
    3.9 %
  17. La Garganta 353 inhabitants · 3.8 km from the town
    89 ha reached on 20 Aug
    3.7 %
  18. Valdastillas
    74 ha reached on 14 Aug
    9.0 %

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 land43 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub30 %
  • Broadleaved forest11 %
  • Agricultural areas9.4 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland5.3 %
  • Coniferous forest1.4 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 85 %

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.

Checked against the press

Checked on 29 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 Jarilla · incendio del Valle del Jerte · incendio de Hervás
Official area reported: 17,367 ha (the satellite measured 17,317 ha)
Declared extinguished: 28 September 2025

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)
13 Aug 27.5 °C 27 % 41 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 42
14 Aug 28.7 °C 23 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Aug 29.7 °C 17 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Aug 31.6 °C 15 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
17 Aug 30.8 °C 20 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
18 Aug 25.9 °C 19 % 39 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 47
19 Aug 23.2 °C 25 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
20 Aug 21.6 °C 30 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
21 Aug 22.8 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
22 Aug after 25.0 °C 25 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
23 Aug after 25.8 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Aug after 24.7 °C 21 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
25 Aug after 25.9 °C 26 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Aug after 25.7 °C 34 % 48 km/h 0.7 mm High 31
27 Aug after 23.3 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
28 Aug after 18.8 °C 24 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
29 Aug after 21.4 °C 37 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
30 Aug after 22.4 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
31 Aug after 18.4 °C 41 % 49 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 15

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Aug 2025
After · 28 Aug 2025

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 18 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 361 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 150: 10.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak361 µg/m³
Days over the guideline7 days
PM10505 µg/m³
Optical depth0.68
1112131415161718192021222324
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 · 1,401Every 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 Jarilla fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 13 August 2025 and 21 August 2025: 9 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 17,317 hectares (173.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 18 municipalities: Cabezabellosa (2,389 ha, 71 %); Hervás (2,331 ha, 39 %); Navaconcejo (2,114 ha, 41 %); Cabezuela del Valle (1,713 ha, 30 %); Jerte (1,607 ha, 27 %); Jarilla (1,506 ha, 53 %); Gargantilla (1,080 ha, 52 %); Casas del Monte (1,063 ha, 39 %); Villar de Plasencia (695 ha, 28 %); Tornavacas (549 ha, 7.2 %); Oliva de Plasencia (444 ha, 5.0 %); El Torno (415 ha, 19 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.0 km of Cabezabellosa. 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 31.6 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very 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.