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Niebla fire, August 2026 Berrocal, Niebla, Escacena del Campo

Out · last detection 8 Aug 2026, 13:53 UTC

The fire started on 7 August 2026 in Niebla, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 43,702 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 10 municipalities.

It is the largest fire in Huelva since 2016 (of 36 with a page). Number 2 in Spain in 2026, of 195.

Burnt area
43,702ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
7 Aug 2026 – 7 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
10
municipalities
Started on
7 Aug
2026
Heat detections
2,142
in a single hotspot: 648 MW
Danger at start
53
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
9.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Aug 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Aug7 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

78

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

The weather it burned in

39°high
39km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

2% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 464 ha in 2019, 250 ha in 2021, 3 ha in 2022.

What happened to each town

  1. Berrocal 283 inhabitants · 0.3 km from the town
    9,964 ha reached on 9 Aug
    79 %
  2. Niebla where it started
    8,713 ha reached on 7 Aug
    39 %
  3. Escacena del Campo 2,327 inhabitants · 10.1 km from the town
    6,311 ha reached on 11 Aug
    46 %
  4. Aznalcóllar 14,648 inhabitants · 17.2 km from the town
    6,197 ha reached on 12 Aug
    31 %
  5. Zalamea la Real 2,003 inhabitants · 7.4 km from the town
    4,686 ha reached on 9 Aug
    20 %
  6. Paterna del Campo 3,382 inhabitants · 8.6 km from the town
    4,388 ha reached on 9 Aug
    33 %
  7. Valverde del Camino 12,631 inhabitants · 9.4 km from the town
    3,144 ha reached on 8 Aug
    14 %
  8. La Palma del Condado 10,841 inhabitants · 6.3 km from the town
    219 ha reached on 11 Aug
    3.6 %
  9. Villarrasa 4,268 inhabitants · 8.6 km from the town
    112 ha reached on 8 Aug
    1.6 %
  10. Villalba del Alcor 3,303 inhabitants · 7.2 km from the town
    55 ha reached on 11 Aug
    0.9 %

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

  • Scrub and transitional woodland58 %
  • Broadleaved forest23 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub8.0 %
  • Coniferous forest5.7 %
  • Mixed forest2.2 %
  • Agricultural areas1.5 %
  • Other natural land1.0 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 43 %

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 29 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 Niebla · Incendio de Raboconejo · Incendio de Berrocal (en prensa local)
Declared extinguished: 21 August 2026

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)
7 Aug 39.3 °C 15 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
8 Aug after 37.0 °C 24 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
9 Aug after 35.8 °C 18 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
10 Aug after 34.8 °C 25 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
11 Aug after 37.0 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Aug after 38.0 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
13 Aug after 38.2 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
14 Aug after 37.8 °C 25 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
15 Aug after 32.5 °C 42 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
16 Aug after 33.8 °C 45 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 Aug after 34.2 °C 45 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Jul 2026
After · 14 Aug 2026

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 10 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 100 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak100 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM10128 µg/m³
Optical depth0.76
5678910
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 · 2,142Every 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 Niebla fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 7 August 2026 and 7 August 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 43,702 hectares (437.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 10 municipalities: Berrocal (9,964 ha, 79 %); Niebla (8,713 ha, 39 %); Escacena del Campo (6,311 ha, 46 %); Aznalcóllar (6,197 ha, 31 %); Zalamea la Real (4,686 ha, 20 %); Paterna del Campo (4,388 ha, 33 %); Valverde del Camino (3,144 ha, 14 %); La Palma del Condado (219 ha, 3.6 %); Villarrasa (112 ha, 1.6 %); Villalba del Alcor (55 ha, 0.9 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.3 km of Berrocal. 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 39.3 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 53, 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.