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Peranzanes fire, September 2016 Fabero, Páramo del Sil, Peranzanes

Out · last detection 13 Sept 2016, 02:18 UTC

The fire started on 13 September 2016 in Peranzanes, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,434 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), the largest of the 2 recorded fires was detected on 12 September 2016 at 15:01 and declared extinguished on 15 September 2016.

It is the 11th largest in León since 2016 (of 86 with a page). Number 4 in Spain in 2016, of 69.

Burnt area
2,434ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
13 Sept 2016 – 13 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
4
municipalities
Started on
13 Sept
2016
Heat detections
10
in a single hotspot: 126 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
6MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Sept13 Sept

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

28°high
51km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 11.9 mm on 14 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Fabero 3,998 inhabitants · 2.9 km from the town
    1,060 ha reached on 12 Sept
    19 %
  2. Páramo del Sil
    778 ha
    4.1 %
  3. Peranzanes 276 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town where it started
    584 ha reached on 7 Sept
    5.0 %
  4. Candín 256 inhabitants · 6.0 km from the town
    13 ha
    0.1 %

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 land60 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland30 %
  • Broadleaved forest7.8 %
  • Agricultural areas1.2 %
  • Coniferous forest0.5 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 89 %

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.

Official record

According to EGIF (MITECO), 2 fires started inside this perimeter on these dates, totalling 2,586 ha (the satellite measured 2,434 ha).

MITECO, Estadística General de Incendios Forestales (EGIF). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.

Checked against the press

Checked on 30 September 2026

We checked this page against 2 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:

Also known as
Incendio de Fabero · Incendio de Fabero y Páramo del Sil
Official area reported: 2,665 ha (the satellite measured 2,434 ha)
Declared extinguished: 15 September 2016

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)
12 Sept 27.6 °C 30 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
13 Sept 19.9 °C 64 % 44 km/h 17.3 mm Very low 0
14 Sept after 10.4 °C 85 % 55 km/h 11.9 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Sept 2016
After · 20 Sept 2016

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 12 September 2016 the air beside the fire reached 35 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak35 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1045 µg/m³
10111213141516
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 Peranzanes fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 13 September 2016 and 13 September 2016: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), the largest of the 2 recorded fires was detected on 12 September 2016 at 15:01 and declared extinguished on 15 September 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,434 hectares (24.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 4 municipalities: Fabero (1,060 ha, 19 %); Páramo del Sil (778 ha, 4.1 %); Peranzanes (584 ha, 5.0 %); Candín (13 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.6 km of Peranzanes. 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 27.6 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.