Obejo fire, June 2026 Obejo
The fire started on 13 June 2026 in Obejo, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 612 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 4th largest in Córdoba since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 39 in Spain in 2026, of 195.
- Burnt area
- 612ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 13 Jun 2026 – 13 Jun 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 13 Jun
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 20
- in a single hotspot: 30 MW
- Danger at start
- 45
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 265MW
- sum of detected power
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 33 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.5 mm on 15 Jun.
This area had burned before
97% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 464 ha in 2017, 112 ha in 2020, 253 ha in 2022, 499 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 592 ha that had burned before.
- 499 ha Obejo fire, July 2024 2,291 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 464 ha Obejo fire, June 2017 624 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 253 ha Obejo fire, October 2022 326 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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560 ha reached on 13 Jun2.6 %
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 scrub75 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland11 %
- Other natural land8.5 %
- Broadleaved forest5.2 %
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 | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jun | 33.8 °C | 21 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 14 Jun after | 31.0 °C | 26 % | 40 km/h | 0.4 mm | Very high 46 |
| 15 Jun after | 31.6 °C | 30 % | 27 km/h | 3.5 mm | Low 11 |
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 15 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 13 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 · 20Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Obejo fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 13 June 2026 and 13 June 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 612 hectares (6.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Obejo (560 ha, 2.6 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.7 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 33.8 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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.