Skip to content
worldfires
ES · Spain · →

Ladrillar fire, July 2022 Ladrillar, Morasverdes, Serradilla del Arroyo

Out · last detection 18 Jul 2022, 13:28 UTC

The fire started on 11 July 2022 in Ladrillar, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 12,687 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 12 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 11 July 2022 at 15:37 and declared extinguished on 5 September 2022.

It is the 2th largest in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 7 in Spain in 2022, of 196.

Burnt area
12,687ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
8days
11 Jul 2022 – 18 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
12
municipalities
Started on
11 Jul
2022
Heat detections
639
in a single hotspot: 350 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
24.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

18 Jul 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jul18 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

12131415161718

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
55km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 156 ha in 2021.

What happened to each town

  1. Ladrillar 177 inhabitants · 0.0 km from the town where it started
    3,234 ha reached on 12 Jul
    61 %
  2. Morasverdes 230 inhabitants · 0.7 km from the town
    2,764 ha reached on 15 Jul
    53 %
  3. Serradilla del Arroyo 136 inhabitants · 5.0 km from the town
    2,734 ha reached on 15 Jul
    34 %
  4. Monsagro 129 inhabitants · 1.1 km from the town
    1,361 ha reached on 12 Jul
    28 %
  5. El Maíllo 282 inhabitants · 3.8 km from the town
    841 ha reached on 15 Jul
    18 %
  6. Serradilla del Llano
    836 ha reached on 13 Jul
    12 %
  7. Tenebrón 123 inhabitants · 2.5 km from the town
    397 ha reached on 15 Jul
    9.8 %
  8. Nuñomoral 1,196 inhabitants · 3.0 km from the town
    239 ha reached on 12 Jul
    2.5 %
  9. La Alberca 1,034 inhabitants · 4.0 km from the town
    230 ha reached on 12 Jul
    3.8 %
  10. Aldehuela de Yeltes 176 inhabitants · 6.8 km from the town
    54 ha
    0.9 %
  11. Dios le Guarde 116 inhabitants · 2.4 km from the town
    7 ha
    0.4 %
  12. Casares de las Hurdes 362 inhabitants · 1.7 km from the town
    3 ha reached on 13 Jul
    0.2 %

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

  • Sclerophyllous scrub24 %
  • Coniferous forest23 %
  • Other natural land22 %
  • Agricultural areas17 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland9.7 %
  • Broadleaved forest3.8 %
  • Mixed forest0.7 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 45 %

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.

Official record

According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 11 July 2022 and burned 10,374 ha (the satellite measured 12,687 ha).

MITECO, Estadística General de Incendios Forestales (EGIF). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.

Checked against the press

Checked on 30 September 2026

We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:

Also known as
incendio de Ladrillar · incendio de Las Hurdes · incendio de la Sierra de Francia
Declared extinguished: 5 September 2022

Sources

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)
11 Jul 31.0 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.8 mm High 30
12 Jul 32.3 °C 15 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
13 Jul 33.0 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 40
14 Jul 34.7 °C 14 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 46
15 Jul 32.9 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
16 Jul 32.1 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 44
17 Jul 32.5 °C 19 % 43 km/h 0.3 mm Extreme 50
18 Jul 28.6 °C 28 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
19 Jul after 24.2 °C 29 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
20 Jul after 29.4 °C 19 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Jul after 30.9 °C 18 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
22 Jul after 29.5 °C 16 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
23 Jul after 30.5 °C 17 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
24 Jul after 30.6 °C 14 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
25 Jul after 27.8 °C 19 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
26 Jul after 26.8 °C 25 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
27 Jul after 27.2 °C 20 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
28 Jul after 26.5 °C 29 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Jul 2022
After · 25 Jul 2022

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 639Every 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

Other fires nearby

All fires in Spain ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ladrillar fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 11 July 2022 and 18 July 2022: 8 days between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 11 July 2022 at 15:37 and declared extinguished on 5 September 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 12,687 hectares (126.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 12 municipalities: Ladrillar (3,234 ha, 61 %); Morasverdes (2,764 ha, 53 %); Serradilla del Arroyo (2,734 ha, 34 %); Monsagro (1,361 ha, 28 %); El Maíllo (841 ha, 18 %); Serradilla del Llano (836 ha, 12 %); Tenebrón (397 ha, 9.8 %); Nuñomoral (239 ha, 2.5 %); La Alberca (230 ha, 3.8 %); Aldehuela de Yeltes (54 ha, 0.9 %); Dios le Guarde (7 ha, 0.4 %); Casares de las Hurdes (3 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.0 km of Ladrillar. 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 34.7 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Extreme.
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

Satellite cross-check

Does something look wrong on this page?

This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.

Report an error
What do you think is wrong?

We will only use your email to reply about this report. Privacy. This is not an emergency service: if there is a fire now, call 112.

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.