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Pantón fire, September 2025 Pantón, Sober, Nogueira de Ramuín

Out · last detection 21 Sept 2025, 02:40 UTC

The fire started on 18 September 2025 in Pantón, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,987 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 2th largest in Lugo since 2016 (of 34 with a page). Number 32 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

Burnt area
1,987ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
18 Sept 2025 – 21 Sept 2025
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
18 Sept
2025
Heat detections
72
in a single hotspot: 161 MW
Danger at start
17
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
772MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Sept 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Sept21 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

18192021

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
48km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.2 mm on 27 Sept.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3 ha in 2017, 25 ha in 2022.

What happened to each town

  1. Pantón 2,350 inhabitants · 4.2 km from the town where it started
    1,717 ha reached on 18 Sept
    12 %
  2. Sober 2,090 inhabitants · 4.2 km from the town
    268 ha reached on 20 Sept
    2.0 %
  3. Nogueira de Ramuín 2,074 inhabitants · 5.2 km from the town
    1 ha reached on 20 Sept
    0.0 %

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

  • Other natural land25 %
  • Coniferous forest23 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland20 %
  • Mixed forest16 %
  • Agricultural areas9.2 %
  • Broadleaved forest6.4 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 52 %

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 3 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:

Also known as
incendio de Pantón y Sober · incendio de Pombeiro · incendio de Pantón (Lugo)
Official area reported: 1,805 ha (the satellite measured 1,987 ha)
Declared extinguished: 29 September 2025

Sources

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 Sept 30.9 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
19 Sept 31.2 °C 27 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
20 Sept 19.8 °C 46 % 31 km/h 1.1 mm Low 10
21 Sept 16.1 °C 45 % 45 km/h 1.3 mm Low 7
22 Sept after 16.9 °C 40 % 49 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 15
23 Sept after 20.9 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
24 Sept after 21.5 °C 29 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
25 Sept after 23.8 °C 25 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
26 Sept after 23.6 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
27 Sept after 20.7 °C 20 % 27 km/h 6.2 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 11 Sept 2025
After · 28 Sept 2025

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 20 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1023 µg/m³
Optical depth0.45
161718192021222324
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 · 72Every 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 Pantón fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 18 September 2025 and 21 September 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 1,987 hectares (19.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Pantón (1,717 ha, 12 %); Sober (268 ha, 2.0 %); Nogueira de Ramuín (1 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 4.2 km of Pantón. 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 31.2 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 20, class Moderate.
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.