Luyego fire, 25 August 2022 Lucillo, Luyego, Truchas
The fire started on 25 August 2022 in Luyego, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 3,619 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 10th largest in León since 2016 (of 86 with a page). Number 17 in Spain in 2022, of 196.
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- Burnt area
- 3,619ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 11days
- 25 Aug 2022 – 4 Sept 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 25 Aug
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 139
- in a single hotspot: 177 MW
- Danger at start
- 21
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 167MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 15.0 mm on 12 Sept.
This area had burned before
5% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 169 ha in 2017, 11 ha in 2021.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Lucillo 360 inhabitants · 3.9 km from the centre2,906 ha reached on 25 Aug18 %
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683 ha reached on 25 Aug5.2 %
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Truchas 371 inhabitants · 9.4 km from the centre30 ha reached on 28 Aug0.1 %
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
- Other natural land91 %
- Broadleaved forest7.1 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland1.7 %
- Agricultural areas0.6 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 72 %
- ZEPA Montes Aquilanos ES4130022
- LIC Montes Aquilanos y Sierra de Teleno ES4130117
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Inside the perimeter there were about 0.39 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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.
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
Checked against the press
Checked on 30 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Incendio de El Teleno · Incendio de Luyego · Incendio del campo de tiro de Teleno (Lucillo, Luyego, Truchas)
Sources
- El incendio del campo de tiro del Teleno es el unico activo en toda Castilla y Leon — Leonoticias, 8 September 2022
- Desciende a nivel 1 el fuego del Campo de Tiro del Teleno, en Leon, ya sin llama — Telemadrid, 2 September 2022
- El incendio del campo de tiro del Teleno alcanza las 3.600 hectareas dentro del area militar y 360 fuera — El Espanol (Castilla y Leon), 31 August 2022
- Descontrolado el incendio en el campo militar de El Teleno — Diario de Leon, 29 August 2022
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug | 24.5 °C | 41 % | 31 km/h | 0.5 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 26 Aug | 25.2 °C | 34 % | 29 km/h | 1.3 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 27 Aug | 26.0 °C | 28 % | 31 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 23 |
| 28 Aug | 27.9 °C | 25 % | 36 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 28 |
| 29 Aug | 23.5 °C | 34 % | 40 km/h | 8.2 mm | Very low 4 |
| 30 Aug | 25.0 °C | 23 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 31 Aug | 23.7 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 1 Sept | 22.7 °C | 33 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 2 Sept | 20.2 °C | 35 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 3 Sept | 21.4 °C | 22 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 4 Sept | 20.0 °C | 32 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 5 Sept after | 19.3 °C | 42 % | 56 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 21 |
| 6 Sept after | 17.9 °C | 42 % | 45 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 7 Sept after | 17.0 °C | 40 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 8 Sept after | 21.0 °C | 37 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 9 Sept after | 24.0 °C | 30 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 10 Sept after | 27.9 °C | 23 % | 31 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 28 |
| 11 Sept after | 27.9 °C | 15 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 12 Sept after | 19.9 °C | 37 % | 82 km/h | 15.0 mm | Low 6 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 30 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 86 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 43: 2.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 139Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Luyego fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 25 August 2022 to 4 September 2022 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 August 2022 to 1 September 2022.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 3,619 hectares (36.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Lucillo (2,906 ha, 18 %); Luyego (683 ha, 5.2 %); Truchas (30 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 3.9 km of the centre of Lucillo, the closest of the areas it touched. 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 27.9 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, class 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 1 September 2022 → 4 September 2022.
- Start date: 28 August 2022 → 25 August 2022.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 28 August 2022 to 1 September 2022. 139 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Checked against news and agencies: 4 confirmed sources.
- 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 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.