Páramo del Sil fire, August 2025
The fire started on 10 August 2025 in Páramo del Sil, Spain, and burned for 5 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 8,001 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities.
Burnt area
8,001
hectares
Duration
5
days
Municipalities hit
4
Started on
10 Aug
2025
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Páramo del Sil where it started | 4,040 | 21.4 % | |
| Peranzanes | 3,452 | 29.4 % | |
| Degaña | 518 | 5.9 % | |
| Palacios del Sil | 8 | 0.0 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Other natural land
82.3 %
Broadleaved forest
14.5 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
2.4 %
Coniferous forest
0.9 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100.0 %