How long did the Mahide fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 17 August 2025 and 17 August 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 122 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Mahide (122 ha, 1.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.7 km of Mahide. 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 34.9 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 44 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.

ES · Spain · 2025-08-17 → 2025-08-17

Mahide fire, August 2025 Mahide

Out · last detection 17 Aug 2025, 13:18 UTC

The fire started on 17 August 2025 in Mahide, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 122 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 39th largest in Zamora since 2016 (of 45 with a page). Number 140 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

Burnt area: 122ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 17 Aug 2025 – 17 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 17 Aug; 2025
Heat detections: 9; in a single hotspot: 32 MW
Danger at start: 50; Extreme · FWI index
Energy released: 218MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Aug17 Aug

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

35°high

44km/h · peak gust

24%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

12% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 15 ha in 2022.

15 ha Sierra de la Culebra fire, June 2022 28,585 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Mahide 299 inhabitants · 1.7 km from the town where it started

122 ha reached on 17 Aug

1.1 %

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 scrub41 %
Other natural land25 %
Agricultural areas23 %
Broadleaved forest11 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 3 %

LIC Riberas del Río Aliste y afluentes ES4190074

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.

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	Danger (FWI)
17 Aug	34.9 °C	24 %	44 km/h	Extreme 50
18 Aug after	29.2 °C	27 %	38 km/h	Very high 41
19 Aug after	27.0 °C	30 %	39 km/h	Very high 40
20 Aug after	26.7 °C	27 %	32 km/h	High 38
21 Aug after	27.1 °C	27 %	28 km/h	High 35
22 Aug after	27.9 °C	25 %	30 km/h	Very high 39
23 Aug after	30.2 °C	22 %	26 km/h	High 36
24 Aug after	31.4 °C	23 %	24 km/h	High 36
25 Aug after	31.3 °C	27 %	32 km/h	Very high 39
26 Aug after	30.9 °C	26 %	41 km/h	Very high 43
27 Aug after	24.7 °C	32 %	45 km/h	Very high 41

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 10 Aug 2025

After · 24 Aug 2025

Before After

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 19 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 132 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 76: 5.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak132 µg/m³

Days over the guideline4 days

PM10179 µg/m³

Optical depth2.52

WHO 15

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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 · 9Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mahide fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 17 August 2025 and 17 August 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 122 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Mahide (122 ha, 1.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.7 km of Mahide. 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 34.9 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 44 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

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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.

Where it burned