Trigueros fire, June 2019 Trigueros, Beas
The fire started on 1 June 2019 in Trigueros, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,649 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 1 June 2019 at 14:14 and declared extinguished on 6 June 2019.
It is the 9th largest in Huelva since 2016 (of 36 with a page). Number 5 in Spain in 2019, of 102.
- Burnt area
- 1,649ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 1 Jun 2019 – 1 Jun 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 1 Jun
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 32
- in a single hotspot: 248 MW
- Danger at start
- 48
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 3.1GW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
1 Jun 2019 · 3,100 MW · 32
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 36 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.
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
-
Trigueros where it started1,125 ha reached on 1 Jun9.5 %
-
Beas 4,414 inhabitants · 9.4 km from the centre528 ha reached on 1 Jun3.6 %
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
- Scrub and transitional woodland94 %
- Agricultural areas3.8 %
- Other natural land1.8 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Official record
According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 1 June 2019 and burned 1,575 ha (the satellite measured 1,649 ha).
- Beas Fuente de la Corcha 1 June 2019 · 14:14 1,575 ha · extinguished on 6 June 2019 · cause: negligence
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 3 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Incendio forestal de Beas · Incendio de Beas (Huelva) · Marcos de la Alcolea
- Declared under control (not yet extinguished): 2 June 2019
Sources
- El incendio de Beas y Trigueros arrasó 1.550 hectáreas y se investigan las causas — Diario de Huelva, 4 June 2019
- Controlado, tras 30 horas de trabajo, el incendio forestal de Beas (Huelva) — COPE, 2 June 2019
- El Infoca da por controlado el incendio de Beas — Huelva24, 2 June 2019
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun | 34.6 °C | 16 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 2 Jun after | 35.0 °C | 19 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 3 Jun after | 34.9 °C | 15 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 4 Jun after | 29.9 °C | 32 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 5 Jun after | 24.4 °C | 24 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 6 Jun after | 25.0 °C | 25 % | 58 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 7 Jun after | 24.9 °C | 22 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 8 Jun after | 29.8 °C | 16 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 9 Jun after | 27.6 °C | 24 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 10 Jun after | 28.4 °C | 21 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 11 Jun after | 28.1 °C | 20 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
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 30 May 2019 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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 · 32Every 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 Trigueros fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 1 June 2019 and 1 June 2019: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 1 June 2019 at 14:14 and declared extinguished on 6 June 2019.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,649 hectares (16.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Trigueros (1,125 ha, 9.5 %); Beas (528 ha, 3.6 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 9.4 km of the centre of Beas, 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 34.6 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very high.
- 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. 32 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- Compared with EGIF (MITECO): 1,575 official ha against 1,649 ha of perimeter; they agree within 25%.
- Checked against news and agencies: 3 confirmed sources.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.