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Pinofranqueado fire, May 2023

The fire started on 17 May 2023 in Pinofranqueado, Spain, and burned for 8 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 10,843 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 8 municipalities.

Burnt area
10,843
hectares
Duration
8
days
Municipalities hit
8
Started on
17 May
2023

The burnt perimeter

What happened to each town

Municipality Hectares % of its area
Pinofranqueado where it started 6,002 40.8 %
Torrecilla de los Ángeles 1,694 39.0 %
Hernán-Pérez 1,116 31.1 %
Descargamaría 960 18.1 %
Santibáñez el Alto 793 8.0 %
Cadalso 217 30.0 %
Robledillo de Gata 80 2.6 %
Caminomorisco 3 0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.

What burned

Sclerophyllous scrub 39.1 %
Coniferous forest 32.4 %
Other natural land 15.6 %
Scrub and transitional woodland 10.4 %
Agricultural areas 2.4 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 37.0 %