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Obejo fire, July 2024 Obejo

Out · last measured on 14 Jul 2024

The fire started on 12 July 2024 in Obejo, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,291 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the largest fire in Córdoba since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 3 in Spain in 2024, of 82.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
2,291ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
12 Jul 2024 – 14 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
12 Jul
2024
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index
Natura 2000
8%
of the perimeter is protected land

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

37°high
43km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 18 Jul.

This area had burned before

23% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 499 ha in 2017, 138 ha in 2020, 288 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 522 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Obejo 2,101 inhabitants · 6.9 km from the town where it started
    2,294 ha
    11 %

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 scrub70 %
  • Broadleaved forest9.9 %
  • Agricultural areas8.9 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland5.6 %
  • Other natural land4.8 %
  • Coniferous forest0.6 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 8 %

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 2026

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

Also known as
Incendio forestal de Obejo · Incendio de Cerro Muriano · Incendio del Campo de Tiro de Cerro Muriano
Declared extinguished: 18 July 2024

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)
12 Jul 36.6 °C 11 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
13 Jul 34.7 °C 14 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
14 Jul 34.3 °C 13 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
15 Jul after 34.7 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
16 Jul after 35.8 °C 11 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
17 Jul after 37.7 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
18 Jul after 36.0 °C 19 % 28 km/h 1.1 mm High 34

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Jul 2024
After · 21 Jul 2024

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 16 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.14
1011121314151617
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Obejo fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 12 July 2024 and 14 July 2024: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,291 hectares (22.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Obejo (2,294 ha, 11 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.9 km of Obejo. 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 36.6 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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

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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.