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Padrón fire, June 2026 Padrón, Teo

Out · last detection 13 Jun 2026, 13:01 UTC

The fire started on 12 June 2026 in Padrón, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 374 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 6th largest in A Coruña since 2016 (of 20 with a page). Number 63 in Spain in 2026, of 195.

Burnt area
374ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
12 Jun 2026 – 12 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
12 Jun
2026
Heat detections
10
in a single hotspot: 133 MW
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index
Energy released
568MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Jun12 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

13

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
38km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 13 Jun.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Padrón 8,334 inhabitants · 2.1 km from the town where it started
    316 ha reached on 13 Jun
    6.5 %
  2. Teo 18,968 inhabitants · 3.5 km from the town
    58 ha
    0.7 %

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 woodland48 %
  • Other natural land39 %
  • Broadleaved forest6.9 %
  • Coniferous forest5.4 %
  • Mixed forest0.8 %

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)
12 Jun 33.3 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
13 Jun after 33.6 °C 32 % 26 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 17

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Jun 2026
After · 19 Jun 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 15 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1020 µg/m³
Optical depth0.39
101112131415
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 · 10Every 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 Padrón fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 12 June 2026 and 12 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 374 hectares (3.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Padrón (316 ha, 6.5 %); Teo (58 ha, 0.7 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.1 km of Padrón. 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 33.3 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class 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.