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Verín fire, August 2025 Vilardevós, Verín, Riós

Out · last detection 15 Aug 2025, 02:32 UTC

The fire started on 15 August 2025 in Verín, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 172 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 85th largest in Ourense since 2016 (of 118 with a page). Number 118 in Spain in 2025, of 158.

The power measured by the satellite is low (6.5 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
172ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Aug 2025 – 15 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
15 Aug
2025
Heat detections
6
in a single hotspot: 6 MW
Danger at start
38
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
17MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Aug15 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

15

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
49km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

75% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 123 ha in 2017, 4 ha in 2020, 4 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Vilardevós 1,616 inhabitants · 5.9 km from the town
    117 ha reached on 15 Aug
    0.8 %
  2. Verín 13,956 inhabitants · 5.2 km from the town where it started
    44 ha reached on 15 Aug
    0.5 %
  3. Riós 1,379 inhabitants · 6.8 km from the town
    11 ha
    0.1 %

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

  • Other natural land76 %
  • Agricultural areas22 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.2 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland0.6 %

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)
15 Aug 33.0 °C 25 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
16 Aug after 33.0 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
17 Aug after 32.6 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Aug after 25.7 °C 41 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
19 Aug after 24.0 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
20 Aug after 23.1 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
21 Aug after 26.1 °C 35 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
22 Aug after 27.9 °C 36 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
23 Aug after 28.9 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
24 Aug after 29.5 °C 30 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
25 Aug after 29.6 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Aug 2025
After · 22 Aug 2025

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 18 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 244 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 128: 8.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak244 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM10346 µg/m³
Optical depth1.65
131415161718
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 · 6Every 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 Verín fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 August 2025 and 15 August 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 172 hectares (1.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Vilardevós (117 ha, 0.8 %); Verín (44 ha, 0.5 %); Riós (11 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 5.2 km of Verín. 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 33.0 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, 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

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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.