Soutomaior fire, October 2017
The fire started on 15 October 2017 in Soutomaior, Spain, and burned for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 8,722 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 8 municipalities.
Burnt area
8,722
hectares
Duration
1
day
Municipalities hit
8
Started on
15 Oct
2017
The burnt perimeter
What happened to each town
| Municipality | Hectares | % of its area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ponte Caldelas | 2,724 | 31.3 % | |
| Pazos de Borbén | 2,631 | 52.5 % | |
| Cerdedo-Cotobade | 839 | 3.9 % | |
| Ponteareas | 788 | 6.3 % | |
| Soutomaior where it started | 700 | 28.1 % | |
| Redondela | 425 | 8.1 % | |
| Fornelos de Montes | 371 | 4.7 % | |
| Mos | 257 | 4.8 % |
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries.
What burned
Broadleaved forest
38.9 %
Other natural land
33.2 %
Scrub and transitional woodland
11.4 %
Mixed forest
6.3 %
Agricultural areas
6.3 %
Coniferous forest
3.0 %
Artificial surfaces
0.8 %