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Jumilla fire, October 2026 Jumilla

Out · last measured on 23 Oct 2026

The fire started on 23 October 2026 in Jumilla, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 106 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

Number 189 in Spain in 2026, of 196.

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Suggestions: Segorbe · 2026Monóvar/Monòver · 2020Tobarra · 2021Jumilla · 2022

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
106ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
23 Oct 2026 – 23 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
23 Oct
2026
Danger at start
17
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

19°high
44km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 31 Oct.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Jumilla 27,574 inhabitants · 17.4 km from the centre where it started
    106 ha
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Coniferous forest88 %
  • Agricultural areas12 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
23 Oct 18.7 °C 39 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
24 Oct after 18.4 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
25 Oct after 23.2 °C 17 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Oct after 24.4 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
27 Oct after 25.1 °C 21 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
28 Oct after 21.4 °C 42 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
29 Oct after 22.4 °C 36 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
30 Oct after 22.4 °C 34 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
31 Oct after 19.0 °C 55 % 36 km/h 1.2 mm Moderate 12

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 16.8, a minimum humidity of 39% and 2 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 10.

FWI at the start 16.8
Minimum humidity 39 %
Days without rain 2
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Segorbe fire, August 2026
633 ha 2 days FWI 13.6 Min. humidity 39 % 145 km away, in 2026

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.5 mm on 23 Aug.

See its page Compare with this fire

What happened to them

Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 10. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

1.2 mmfirst rain
31 Oct8 days after it ended
44km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 23 Oct, and on 31 Oct 1.2 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Oct 2026
After · 30 Oct 2026

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 22 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 8 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak8 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1012 µg/m³
Optical depth0.10
21 Oct23 Oct25 Oct
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Jumilla fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 23 October 2026 and 23 October 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 106 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Jumilla (106 ha, 0.1 %).
Is the Jumilla fire still active?
No fire detections since 23 October 2026. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Jumilla and came within 17.4 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 18.7 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 17, class Moderate.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 27 October 2026.
  1. Page published (106 ha).

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology

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.