Plasenzuela fire, June 2025 Cáceres, Trujillo
The fire started on 17 June 2025 in Cáceres, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,055 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 16th largest in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 45 in Spain in 2025, of 158.
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- Burnt area
- 1,055ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 17 Jun 2025 – 18 Jun 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 17 Jun
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 43
- in a single hotspot: 76 MW
- Danger at start
- 50
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 293MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
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
It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.5 mm on 23 Jun.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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852 ha reached on 17 Jun0.5 %
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205 ha reached on 17 Jun0.3 %
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
- Agricultural areas53 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub28 %
- Broadleaved forest14 %
- Other natural land5.4 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 88 %
- ZEPA Llanos de Cáceres y Sierra de Fuentes ES0000071
- ZEPA Riberos del Almonte ES0000356
- LIC Río Almonte ES4320018
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.
Checked against the press
Checked on 2 October 2026We checked this page against 3 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Incendio forestal de Cáceres próximo a Plasenzuela · Incendio A-58 / N-521 Cáceres-Trujillo
- Official area reported: 998 ha (the satellite measured 1,055 ha)
- Declared stabilised: 18 June 2025
Sources
- El Plan Infoex desactiva el nivel 1 del incendio forestal en el término municipal de Cáceres próximo a Plasenzuela — Junta de Extremadura (juntaex.es), 18 June 2025 · official source
- Se mantiene el nivel 1 en el incendio de Plasenzuela, aunque evoluciona favorablemente — Canal Extremadura, 18 June 2025
- El incendio de Plasenzuela ya está estabilizado y se desactiva el nivel 1 de alerta — Radio Interior, 18 June 2025
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Jun | 40.0 °C | 13 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 18 Jun | 38.1 °C | 13 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 19 Jun after | 38.1 °C | 15 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 20 Jun after | 38.6 °C | 16 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 21 Jun after | 36.8 °C | 21 % | 42 km/h | 0.3 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 22 Jun after | 36.9 °C | 18 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 23 Jun after | 34.1 °C | 21 % | 48 km/h | 3.5 mm | High 26 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 19 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 60 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 19: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 43Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Plasenzuela fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 17 June 2025 and 18 June 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,055 hectares (10.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Cáceres (852 ha, 0.5 %); Trujillo (205 ha, 0.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Cáceres and came within 30.9 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 40.0 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, 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.
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.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. 43 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Checked against news and agencies: 3 confirmed sources.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.