Porto fire, August 2025
The fire started on 15 August 2025 in Porto, Spain, and burned for 17 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 25,953 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 7 municipalities.
Burnt area
25,953
hectares
Duration
17
days
Municipalities hit
7
Started on
15 Aug
2025
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porto where it started | 8,751 | 43.5 % | |
| Encinedo | 5,039 | 25.8 % | |
| Galende | 3,941 | 43.6 % | |
| Carballeda de Valdeorras | 3,798 | 17.1 % | |
| A Veiga | 2,549 | 8.8 % | |
| San Justo | 975 | 13.0 % | |
| Trefacio | 952 | 37.2 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Other natural land
91.4 %
Broadleaved forest
5.7 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
2.4 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 92.6 %