Quiroga fire, August 2025 Quiroga, A Pobra do Brollón
The fire started on 25 August 2025 in Quiroga, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,138 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 6th largest in Lugo since 2016 (of 34 with a page). Number 43 in Spain in 2025, of 158.
- Burnt area
- 1,138ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 3days
- 25 Aug 2025 – 27 Aug 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 25 Aug
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 90
- in a single hotspot: 146 MW
- Danger at start
- 40
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 2.6GW
- sum of detected power
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 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.0 mm on 28 Aug.
This area had burned before
13% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 151 ha in 2021.
What happened to each town
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1,094 ha reached on 25 Aug3.4 %
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A Pobra do Brollón 1,610 inhabitants · 6.4 km from the town45 ha reached on 26 Aug0.2 %
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
- Coniferous forest74 %
- Mixed forest19 %
- Other natural land3.0 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland2.6 %
- Agricultural areas1.8 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 27 %
- LIC Ancares - Courel ES1120001
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 30 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Incendio de Abrence · Incendio de A Pobra do Brollón · Incendio de A Pobra do Brollón y Quiroga
- Official area reported: 1,107 ha (the satellite measured 1,138 ha)
- Declared extinguished: 30 August 2025
Sources
- Medio Rural informa de la situación de los fuegos forestales con datos recogidos hasta las 20.45 h. de hoy — Xunta de Galicia, 30 August 2025 · official source
- Extinguidos los incendios forestales de A Pobra do Brollón, Maceda, Montederramo, A Mezquita y Avión — Galicia Press, 30 August 2025
- El gran incendio de A Pobra do Brollón (Lugo) arrasa ya 800 hectáreas y obliga a la UME a intervenir — Quincemil (El Español), 26 August 2025
- El fuego se ceba con A Pobra do Brollón y Quiroga, en Lugo, con siete pueblos en peligro durante la noche — Galicia Press, 26 August 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug | 32.5 °C | 25 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 26 Aug | 27.9 °C | 34 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 27 Aug | 23.6 °C | 36 % | 42 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 34 |
| 28 Aug after | 22.7 °C | 33 % | 44 km/h | 3.0 mm | Low 10 |
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 27 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 57 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 24: 1.6 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 · 90Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,792 haRibas de SilSeptember 2021 · 2 days · 2 km away
- 13,989 haFolgoso do CourelJuly 2022 · 10 days · 16 km away
- 37,831 haLarouco Vilamartín de ValdeorrasAugust 2025 · 15 days · 24 km away
- 1,987 haPantónSeptember 2025 · 4 days · 26 km away
- 30,754 haChandrexa de QueixaAugust 2025 · 14 days · 29 km away
- 7,090 haVilariño de ConsoJuly 2022 · 6 days · 33 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Quiroga fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 25 August 2025 and 27 August 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,138 hectares (11.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Quiroga (1,094 ha, 3.4 %); A Pobra do Brollón (45 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 5.3 km of Quiroga. 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 32.5 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very 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.