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Tineo fire, 27 March 2023 Belmonte de Miranda, Tineo

Out · last detection 31 Mar 2023, 13:31 UTC

The fire started on 27 March 2023 in Tineo, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 973 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), the largest of the 3 recorded fires was detected on 31 March 2023 at 12:17 and declared extinguished on 1 April 2023.

It is the 10th largest in Asturias since 2016 (of 225 with a page). Number 14 in Spain in 2023, of 124.

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Burnt area
973ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
5days
27 Mar 2023 – 31 Mar 2023
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
27 Mar
2023
Heat detections
57
in a single hotspot: 44 MW
Danger at start
0
Very low · FWI index
Average daily power
175MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 27 Mar31 Mar
31 Mar 2023

How it evolved, day by day

27 Mar 2023 · 9 MW · 5 30 Mar 2023 · 42 MW · 13 31 Mar 2023 · 475 MW · 39
27 Mar 30 Mar 31 Mar

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

The weather it burned in

19°high
87km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.5 mm on 12 Apr.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2022.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.6% of the area of London (9.7 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Belmonte de Miranda 1,366 inhabitants · 2.7 km from the centre
    634 ha reached on 30 Mar
    3.0 %
  2. Tineo 8,679 inhabitants · 15.8 km from the centre where it started
    338 ha reached on 27 Mar
    0.6 %

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 land98 %
  • Agricultural areas1.2 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.8 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 90 %

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

Complex of 3 fires according to EGIF (MITECO)

According to EGIF (MITECO), 3 fires started inside this perimeter on these dates, totalling 896 ha (the satellite measured 973 ha).

EGIF (MITECO) records each fire that started at a different time or place separately; the satellite sees a single burned area, so this page groups them together. The numbers on the map show where each one started.

When each one burned

1 7 ha 2 165 ha 3 725 ha
26 Mar3 Apr
arson
  1. 1 Tineo 26 March 2023 · 20:53 7 ha · extinguished on 27 March 2023 · cause: arson
  2. 2 Tineo Solanos 30 March 2023 · 09:23 165 ha · extinguished on 3 April 2023 · cause: arson
  3. 3 Belmonte de Miranda Sierra Peña Manteca 31 March 2023 · 12:17 725 ha · extinguished on 1 April 2023 · cause: arson

Total according to EGIF (MITECO): 896 ha, 92 % of the 973 ha in the satellite perimeter.

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)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
27 Mar 13.4 °C 39 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 0
28 Mar 17.6 °C 40 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
29 Mar 17.8 °C 32 % 75 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
30 Mar 13.3 °C 50 % 87 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
31 Mar 9.2 °C 57 % 86 km/h 0.9 mm Very low 3
1 Apr after 5.7 °C 74 % 58 km/h 6.7 mm Very low 0
2 Apr after 9.1 °C 52 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 0
3 Apr after 12.7 °C 20 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 0
4 Apr after 11.4 °C 35 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
5 Apr after 13.1 °C 36 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
6 Apr after 13.7 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 5
7 Apr after 17.7 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
8 Apr after 18.6 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
9 Apr after 17.7 °C 32 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
10 Apr after 14.3 °C 48 % 42 km/h 0.1 mm Low 7
11 Apr after 15.8 °C 34 % 50 km/h 0.3 mm Low 8
12 Apr after 7.1 °C 58 % 70 km/h 10.5 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 20 Mar 2023
After · 7 Apr 2023

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 April 2023 the air beside the fire reached 32 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak32 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1051 µg/m³
Optical depth0.52
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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 · 57Every 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 Tineo fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 27 March 2023 to 31 March 2023 (5 days). The perimeter dates it from 27 March 2023 to 30 March 2023. According to EGIF (MITECO), the largest of the 3 recorded fires was detected on 31 March 2023 at 12:17 and declared extinguished on 1 April 2023.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 973 hectares (9.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Belmonte de Miranda (634 ha, 3.0 %); Tineo (338 ha, 0.6 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 2.7 km of the centre of Belmonte de Miranda, the closest of the areas it touched. 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 18.6 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 87 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, class Low.
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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Matched to the official record from EGIF (MITECO).

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 27 March 2023 to 30 March 2023. 57 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • Compared with EGIF (MITECO): 896 official ha against 973 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.