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Pasarón de la Vera fire, August 2024 Pasarón de la Vera, Torremenga

Out · last detection 22 Aug 2024, 14:06 UTC

The fire started on 22 August 2024 in Pasarón de la Vera, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 188 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 46th largest in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 51 in Spain in 2024, of 82.

The power measured by the satellite is low (15.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
188ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
22 Aug 2024 – 22 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
22 Aug
2024
Heat detections
4
in a single hotspot: 15 MW
Danger at start
51
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
60MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Aug22 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

22 Aug 2024 · 60 MW · 4

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
33km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 53 days 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

  1. Pasarón de la Vera 588 inhabitants · 1.8 km from the centre where it started
    187 ha reached on 22 Aug
    4.8 %
  2. Torremenga 620 inhabitants · 2.1 km from the centre
    1 ha
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Broadleaved forest37 %
  • Agricultural areas25 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub24 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland6.8 %
  • Other natural land6.8 %

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)

Started with Very dry air: 15 % of the area in Spain

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
22 Aug 36.0 °C 14 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
23 Aug after 36.2 °C 22 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
24 Aug after 35.3 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
25 Aug after 35.5 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
26 Aug after 34.9 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
27 Aug after 35.4 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
28 Aug after 34.7 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
29 Aug after 30.9 °C 34 % 31 km/h 0.3 mm High 31
30 Aug after 33.1 °C 30 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
31 Aug after 30.4 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
1 Sept after 32.0 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 29

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 50.6, a minimum humidity of 14% and 53 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 17.

FWI at the start 50.6
Minimum humidity 14 %
Days without rain 53
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Candeleda fire, August 2021
220 ha 2 days FWI 51.7 Min. humidity 14 % 42 km away, in 2021

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

2 days
median duration
496 ha
median area
24 %
went past 1,000 ha
13.1 mm
rain at the end (median; 5 of 17 had it)

It stayed below its twins: 188 ha against a median of 496 ha. It lasted 1 day, against 2 days.

In 12 of 17, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 13.1 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
33km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 22 Aug, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 5 of 17, with a median of 13.1 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Aug 2024
After · 29 Aug 2024

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 25 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak10 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1015 µg/m³
Optical depth0.21
20 Aug22 Aug24 Aug
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 · 4Every 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 Pasarón de la Vera fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 22 August 2024 and 22 August 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 188 hectares (1.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Pasarón de la Vera (187 ha, 4.8 %); Torremenga (1 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Pasarón de la Vera and came within 1.8 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.0 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, class Extreme.
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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 17. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 496 ha; 24 % went past 1,000 ha. In 12 of 17, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 13.1 mm.

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 · Emergency number and official warnings

Satellite cross-check

History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

No changes since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 4 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology

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.