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Robledo del Mazo fire, July 2022 Robledo del Mazo

Out · last detection 30 Jul 2022, 02:31 UTC

The fire started on 29 July 2022 in Robledo del Mazo, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 498 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 29 July 2022 at 14:32 and declared extinguished on 2 August 2022.

It is the 7th largest in Toledo since 2016 (of 25 with a page). Number 64 in Spain in 2022, of 196.

Burnt area
498ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
29 Jul 2022 – 30 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
29 Jul
2022
Heat detections
9
in a single hotspot: 143 MW
Danger at start
54
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
106MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jul30 Jul
30 Jul 2022

How it evolved, day by day

29 Jul 2022 · 195 MW · 2 30 Jul 2022 · 16 MW · 7
29 Jul 30 Jul

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

38°high
33km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 41 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Robledo del Mazo 249 inhabitants · 0.6 km from the centre where it started
    499 ha reached on 29 Jul
    3.6 %

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

  • Other natural land37 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub21 %
  • Agricultural areas18 %
  • Coniferous forest15 %
  • Mixed forest6.0 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland2.0 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.4 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 61 %

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), this fire started on 29 July 2022 and burned 538 ha (the satellite measured 498 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.

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)

Started with Extreme FWI: 13 % of the area in Spain

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
29 Jul 35.9 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
30 Jul 37.6 °C 15 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
31 Jul after 37.8 °C 17 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
1 Aug after 38.9 °C 17 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
2 Aug after 38.1 °C 18 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
3 Aug after 37.4 °C 10 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
4 Aug after 36.4 °C 14 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
5 Aug after 36.0 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
6 Aug after 36.4 °C 14 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
7 Aug after 34.4 °C 17 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
8 Aug after 35.1 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
9 Aug after 37.2 °C 19 % 42 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 48

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 53.8, a minimum humidity of 16% and 41 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 17.

FWI at the start 53.8
Minimum humidity 16 %
Days without rain 41
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Azuaga fire, June 2022
129 ha 1 day FWI 49.4 Min. humidity 17 % 144 km away, in 2022

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

What happened to them

2 days
median duration
243 ha
median area
18 %
went past 1,000 ha
4.8 mm
rain at the end (median; 4 of 17 had it)

It was 2.0 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 2 days, against 2 days.

Only 7 of its 17 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 13 of 17, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 4.8 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
33km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 30 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 4 of 17, with a median of 4.8 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Jul 2022
After · 6 Aug 2022

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 2 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1030 µg/m³
27 Jul29 Jul31 Jul2 Aug
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 · 9Every 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 Robledo del Mazo fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 29 July 2022 and 30 July 2022: 2 days between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 29 July 2022 at 14:32 and declared extinguished on 2 August 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 498 hectares (5.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Robledo del Mazo (499 ha, 3.6 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Robledo del Mazo and came within 0.6 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 37.6 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 17. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 243 ha; 18 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 7 of its 17 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 13 of 17, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 4.8 mm.

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

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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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. 9 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • Compared with EGIF (MITECO): 538 official ha against 498 ha of perimeter; they agree within 25%.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology

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.