How long did the Parauta fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 17 September 2025 and 17 September 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 122 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Parauta (103 ha, 2.3 %); Ronda (19 ha, 0.0 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.4 km of Parauta. 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 26.9 °C, humidity dropped to 44 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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.

ES · Spain · 2025-09-17 → 2025-09-17

Parauta fire, September 2025 Parauta, Ronda

Out · last detection 17 Sept 2025, 02:16 UTC

The fire started on 17 September 2025 in Parauta, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 122 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 13th largest in Malaga since 2016 (of 16 with a page). Number 140 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

The power measured by the satellite is low (16.7 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area: 122ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 17 Sept 2025 – 17 Sept 2025
Municipalities hit: 2; municipalities
Started on: 17 Sept; 2025
Heat detections: 9; in a single hotspot: 17 MW
Danger at start: 24; High · FWI index
Energy released: 121MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Sept17 Sept

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

27°high

32km/h · peak gust

44%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Parauta 271 inhabitants · 3.4 km from the town where it started

103 ha reached on 17 Sept

2.3 %
Ronda

19 ha

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

Sclerophyllous scrub86 %
Other natural land14 %

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)
17 Sept	26.9 °C	44 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
18 Sept after	26.7 °C	39 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
19 Sept after	25.0 °C	45 %	40 km/h	0.4 mm	High 26
20 Sept after	24.9 °C	49 %	34 km/h	0.1 mm	High 23
21 Sept after	26.1 °C	26 %	45 km/h	0.1 mm	High 31
22 Sept after	23.7 °C	17 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
23 Sept after	22.5 °C	31 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
24 Sept after	20.7 °C	57 %	38 km/h	0.4 mm	High 22
25 Sept after	21.5 °C	49 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
26 Sept after	22.9 °C	42 %	22 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 19
27 Sept after	23.3 °C	45 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 10 Sept 2025

After · 24 Sept 2025

Before After

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 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1018 µg/m³

Optical depth0.27

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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 · 9Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Parauta fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 17 September 2025 and 17 September 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 122 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Parauta (103 ha, 2.3 %); Ronda (19 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.4 km of Parauta. 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 26.9 °C, humidity dropped to 44 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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.

Where it burned