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Selas fire, July 2026 Corduente, Tartanedo, Establés

Out · last detection 22 Jul 2026, 01:07 UTC

The fire started on 21 July 2026 in Corduente, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,958 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 4 municipalities.

Number 13 in Spain in 2026, of 195.

Burnt area
2,958ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
21 Jul 2026 – 21 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
4
municipalities
Started on
21 Jul
2026
Heat detections
37
in a single hotspot: 237 MW
Danger at start
61
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
3.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

22 Jul 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Jul21 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

2122

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
53km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.7 mm on 25 Jul.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Corduente 297 inhabitants · 10.4 km from the town
    1,314 ha reached on 21 Jul
    5.6 %
  2. Tartanedo 143 inhabitants · 3.6 km from the town
    898 ha
    6.1 %
  3. Establés 35 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town
    656 ha reached on 22 Jul
    12 %
  4. Selas 33 inhabitants · 2.3 km from the town where it started
    93 ha reached on 21 Jul
    2.1 %

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

  • Sclerophyllous scrub52 %
  • Broadleaved forest12 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland9.7 %
  • Coniferous forest8.9 %
  • Agricultural areas8.3 %
  • Other natural land7.4 %
  • Mixed forest1.7 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 95 %

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 2026

We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:

Also known as
incendio de Selas (Guadalajara) · incendio de Selas-Aragoncillo (N-211) · incendio del Señorío de Molina / Alto Tajo
Official area reported: 2,800 ha (the satellite measured 2,958 ha)
Declared extinguished: 27 July 2026

Sources

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)
21 Jul 33.3 °C 10 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
22 Jul after 34.1 °C 12 % 59 km/h 0.5 mm Very extreme 82
23 Jul after 33.3 °C 8 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 74
24 Jul after 30.8 °C 12 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
25 Jul after 24.2 °C 23 % 41 km/h 1.7 mm High 23

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Jul 2026
After · 28 Jul 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 22 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1076 µg/m³
Optical depth0.62
19202122232425
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 · 37Every 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 Selas fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 21 July 2026 and 21 July 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 2,958 hectares (29.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 4 municipalities: Corduente (1,314 ha, 5.6 %); Tartanedo (898 ha, 6.1 %); Establés (656 ha, 12 %); Selas (93 ha, 2.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.3 km of Selas. 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 33.3 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 61, 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

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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.