Skip to content
worldfires
ES · Spain · →

Usagre fire, 5 October 2026 Usagre, Villagarcía de la Torre

Out · last measured on 9 Oct 2026

The fire started on 5 October 2026 in Usagre, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 248 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 26th largest in Badajoz since 2016 (of 52 with a page). Number 93 in Spain in 2026, of 195.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
248ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
5days
5 Oct 2026 – 9 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
5 Oct
2026
Danger at start
8
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

30°high
37km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

3% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2018, 5 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Usagre 1,698 inhabitants · 6.1 km from the town where it started
    157 ha
    0.6 %
  2. Villagarcía de la Torre 909 inhabitants · 3.4 km from the town
    91 ha
    1.4 %

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

  • Agricultural areas67 %
  • Other natural land21 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland12 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

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)
8 Oct 24.0 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
9 Oct 23.1 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
10 Oct after 25.4 °C 17 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
11 Oct after 26.0 °C 24 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
12 Oct after 27.5 °C 25 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
13 Oct after 29.6 °C 25 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
14 Oct after 29.4 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 22

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Sept 2026
After · 16 Oct 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 5 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1053 µg/m³
Optical depth0.38
3456789101112
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)

Other fires nearby

All fires in Spain ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Usagre fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 5 October 2026 to 9 October 2026 (5 days). The perimeter dates it from 5 October 2026 to 5 October 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 248 hectares (2.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Usagre (157 ha, 0.6 %); Villagarcía de la Torre (91 ha, 1.4 %).
Is the Usagre fire still active?
No fire detections since 9 October 2026. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.4 km of Villagarcía de la Torre. 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 29.6 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class 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

Satellite cross-check

Does something look wrong on this page?

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.

Report an error
What do you think is wrong?

We will only use your email to reply about this report. Privacy. This is not an emergency service: if there is a fire now, call 112.

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.