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Méntrida fire, July 2025 Villamanta, Navalcarnero, Casarrubios del Monte

Out · last detection 18 Jul 2025, 02:58 UTC

The fire started on 17 July 2025 in Villamanta, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 3,247 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 5 municipalities.

It is the largest fire in Madrid since 2016 (of 15 with a page). Number 21 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

The power measured by the satellite is low (3.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
3,247ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
17 Jul 2025 – 18 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
5
municipalities
Started on
17 Jul
2025
Heat detections
5
in a single hotspot: 3 MW
Danger at start
62
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
9MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Jul18 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

18

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

The weather it burned in

38°high
51km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Villamanta 2,899 inhabitants · 2.9 km from the town
    980 ha reached on 18 Jul
    16 %
  2. Navalcarnero 33,331 inhabitants · 1.5 km from the town
    793 ha
    7.8 %
  3. Casarrubios del Monte 7,424 inhabitants · 6.0 km from the town
    675 ha
    7.3 %
  4. Valmojado 4,898 inhabitants · 2.8 km from the town
    445 ha
    17 %
  5. Méntrida 6,495 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town where it started
    357 ha
    4.3 %

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

  • Agricultural areas54 %
  • Other natural land27 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub17 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.9 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland0.8 %

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

Checked against the press

Checked on 2 October 2026

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

Also known as
Incendio de Méntrida · Incendio de Méntrida, Navalcarnero y Villamanta · Incendio Villamanta-Méntrida
Official area reported: 3,100 ha (the satellite measured 3,247 ha)
Declared extinguished: 19 July 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)
17 Jul 37.5 °C 10 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
18 Jul 32.5 °C 14 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
19 Jul after 30.7 °C 21 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
20 Jul after 29.5 °C 27 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
21 Jul after 30.4 °C 13 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
22 Jul after 33.1 °C 11 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
23 Jul after 30.7 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Jul after 29.8 °C 18 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
25 Jul after 30.0 °C 18 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
26 Jul after 33.7 °C 12 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
27 Jul after 35.8 °C 13 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
28 Jul after 34.3 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 10 Jul 2025
After · 25 Jul 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 19 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1017 µg/m³
Optical depth0.15
15161718192021
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 · 5Every 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 Méntrida fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 17 July 2025 and 18 July 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 3,247 hectares (32.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 5 municipalities: Villamanta (980 ha, 16 %); Navalcarnero (793 ha, 7.8 %); Casarrubios del Monte (675 ha, 7.3 %); Valmojado (445 ha, 17 %); Méntrida (357 ha, 4.3 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.5 km of Navalcarnero. 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 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, 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.