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Segovia fire, August 2026 Segovia, Navas de Riofrío

Out · last measured on 9 Aug 2026

The fire started on 9 August 2026 in Segovia, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 168 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

Number 127 in Spain in 2026, of 195.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
168ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
9 Aug 2026 – 9 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
9 Aug
2026
Danger at start
50
Extreme · FWI index
Natura 2000
79%
of the perimeter is protected land

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

29°high
61km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 31 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. Segovia 580 inhabitants · 0.8 km from the centre where it started
    143 ha
    0.9 %
  2. Navas de Riofrío 430 inhabitants · 2.1 km from the centre
    25 ha
    1.7 %

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

  • Mixed forest53 %
  • Agricultural areas29 %
  • Broadleaved forest9.9 %
  • Other natural land7.6 %
  • Coniferous forest0.6 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 79 %

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.

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)
9 Aug 29.0 °C 16 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
10 Aug after 29.5 °C 16 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
11 Aug after 29.5 °C 23 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
12 Aug after 31.4 °C 15 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
13 Aug after 32.6 °C 13 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
14 Aug after 31.3 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm High 38
15 Aug after 27.6 °C 31 % 38 km/h 0.6 mm High 31
16 Aug after 26.6 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
17 Aug after 29.6 °C 21 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 Aug after 32.0 °C 19 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
19 Aug after 29.4 °C 23 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Aug 2026
After · 16 Aug 2026

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 9 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 15: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1054 µg/m³
Optical depth0.26
789101112
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Segovia fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 9 August 2026 and 9 August 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 168 hectares (1.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Segovia (143 ha, 0.9 %); Navas de Riofrío (25 ha, 1.7 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Segovia and came within 0.8 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 29.0 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 61 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.

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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. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • 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.