Toledo fire, June 2022 Toledo, Guadamur, Argés
The fire started on 17 June 2022 in Toledo, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,738 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 17 June 2022 at 13:03 and declared extinguished on 20 June 2022.
It is the 3th largest in Toledo since 2016 (of 25 with a page). Number 31 in Spain in 2022, of 192.
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- Burnt area
- 1,738ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 17 Jun 2022 – 17 Jun 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 17 Jun
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 43
- in a single hotspot: 199 MW
- Danger at start
- 60
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 1.4GW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
17 Jun 2022 · 1,367 MW · 43
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.7 mm on 23 Jun.
This area had burned before
36% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 634 ha in 2019.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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1,323 ha reached on 17 Jun5.7 %
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Guadamur 7,178 inhabitants · 3.8 km from the centre369 ha reached on 17 Jun9.8 %
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48 ha2.0 %
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
- Broadleaved forest61 %
- Other natural land29 %
- Agricultural areas5.1 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland4.1 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Inside the perimeter there were about 0.40 hectares of built-up land and about 20 residents (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
Official record
According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 17 June 2022 and burned 1,738 ha (the satellite measured 1,738 ha).
- Toledo Finca Zurraquin 17 June 2022 · 13:03 1,738 ha · extinguished on 20 June 2022 · cause: natural (lightning)
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.
Checked against the press
Checked on 30 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Incendio de Puy du Fou · Incendio de Toledo · Incendio de Zurraquín
- Official area reported: 1,800 ha (the satellite measured 1,738 ha)
- Declared extinguished: 20 June 2022
Sources
- El incendio que llevó a desalojar Puy du Fou en Toledo sigue investigándose y asoló 1.800 hectáreas — Toledo Diario, 21 June 2022
- Incendios.- Extinguido el incendio de la Finca Zurraquín en Toledo tras tres días de trabajo, 53 medios y 219 personas — COPE (Europa Press), 21 June 2022
- Controlado el incendio en la finca Zurraquín en Toledo, donde continúan trabajando un medio y 5 personas — eldiario.es Castilla-La Mancha, 19 June 2022
- El incendio en Toledo que obligó a desalojar a más de 3.000 personas del parque Puy du Fou pasa a nivel cero — eldiario.es Castilla-La Mancha, 18 June 2022
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Jun | 40.8 °C | 9 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 18 Jun after | 39.4 °C | 10 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 70 |
| 19 Jun after | 31.0 °C | 21 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 20 Jun after | 26.8 °C | 24 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 21 Jun after | 28.3 °C | 17 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 22 Jun after | 22.1 °C | 35 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 23 Jun after | 23.7 °C | 37 % | 40 km/h | 3.7 mm | Low 9 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 17 June 2022 the air beside the fire reached 45 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 43Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Toledo fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 17 June 2022 and 17 June 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 17 June 2022 at 13:03 and declared extinguished on 20 June 2022.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,738 hectares (17.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Toledo (1,323 ha, 5.7 %); Guadamur (369 ha, 9.8 %); Argés (48 ha, 2.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Toledo and came within 3.0 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 40.8 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 60, 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.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. 43 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- Compared with EGIF (MITECO): 1,738 official ha against 1,738 ha of perimeter; they agree within 25%.
- Checked against news and agencies: 4 confirmed sources.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.