Navaluenga fire, July 2025 Navaluenga, Navalmoral, San Juan de la Nava
The fire started on 18 July 2025 in Navaluenga, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,615 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities.
It is the 7th largest in Ávila since 2016 (of 29 with a page). Number 35 in Spain in 2025, of 158.
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- Burnt area
- 1,615ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 18 Jul 2025 – 21 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 4
- municipalities
- Started on
- 18 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 19
- in a single hotspot: 159 MW
- Danger at start
- 50
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 472MW
- 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 22 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.
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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779 ha reached on 18 Jul11 %
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Navalmoral 445 inhabitants · 3.6 km from the centre584 ha reached on 21 Jul13 %
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San Juan de la Nava 422 inhabitants · 2.5 km from the centre161 ha2.6 %
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Burgohondo 1,269 inhabitants · 3.4 km from the centre93 ha reached on 18 Jul1.7 %
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
- Sclerophyllous scrub38 %
- Broadleaved forest18 %
- Other natural land17 %
- Mixed forest12 %
- Agricultural areas11 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland4.5 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 1 %
- LIC Riberas del Río Alberche y afluentes ES4110078
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.
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 Navaluenga (Ávila) · incendio de Navaluenga y Burgohondo
- Official area reported: 1,500 ha (the satellite measured 1,615 ha)
Sources
- Extinguido después de nueve días el incendio de Navaluenga — COPE, 28 July 2025
- El incendio de Navaluenga fue intencionado: tenía dos focos y aún no está extinguido — Ávila Red, 23 July 2025
- El incendio de Navaluenga queda controlado tras dos días activo y 1.500 hectáreas arrasadas — Telemadrid, 20 July 2025
- Controlado y en nivel 0 de peligrosidad tras días de lucha el incendio de Navaluenga que ha arrasado 1.500 hectáreas — El Español
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jul | 28.9 °C | 18 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 19 Jul | 27.5 °C | 33 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 20 Jul | 25.0 °C | 43 % | 59 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 21 Jul | 27.5 °C | 24 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 22 Jul after | 29.9 °C | 18 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 23 Jul after | 29.3 °C | 24 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 24 Jul after | 26.7 °C | 21 % | 59 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 25 Jul after | 28.4 °C | 16 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 26 Jul after | 30.7 °C | 13 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 27 Jul after | 33.6 °C | 14 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 28 Jul after | 30.7 °C | 23 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 29 Jul after | 29.1 °C | 25 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 30 Jul after | 31.0 °C | 20 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 31 Jul after | 32.0 °C | 23 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
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 20 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 8 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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 · 19Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 23,078 haNavalacruzAugust 2021 · 7 days · 12 km away
- 63,974 haBurgohondo El BarracoJuly 2026 · 19 days · 15 km away
- 1,493 haGavilanesJune 2019 · 4 days · 23 km away
- 4,460 haCebrerosJuly 2022 · 8 days · 24 km away
- 3,157 haCadalso de los VidriosJune 2019 · 3 days · 29 km away
- 2,942 haÁvilaAugust 2025 · 2 days · 31 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Navaluenga fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 18 July 2025 and 21 July 2025: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,615 hectares (16.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 4 municipalities: Navaluenga (779 ha, 11 %); Navalmoral (584 ha, 13 %); San Juan de la Nava (161 ha, 2.6 %); Burgohondo (93 ha, 1.7 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Navaluenga and came within 1.6 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 28.9 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Very 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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.
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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. 19 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.
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.