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Wildfire near Castropodame (Jul 22)

Ended · 775 hectares (1,915 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers92 days
775Hectares1,915Acres92Days it lasted

Started on Jul 22, 2026.

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Wildfire near Castropodame (Jul 22) — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Castropodame (Jul 22) — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

Quick facts

Official status
OutOut, no heat left.
Jurisdiction
Junta de Castilla y León (INFOCAL)

Burning across transitional woodland-shrub and broadleaf forest near Castropodame, Spain, a 775-hectare (1,915-acre) wildfire burned for 17 days with an average daily growth of approximately 46 hectares per day. The incident has now ended, following firefighting efforts managed by the Junta de Castilla y León (INFOCAL) after it began on July 22, 2026.

This event unfolds within the context of a severe regional fire season, which typically spans from June to October. Across the country, 223,403 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a total that is 135 percent above the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Spain for 91 days. In total it burned about 775 ha (1,915 acres) — around 7.8 km².

In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.

The bigger picture in Spain

Across Spain, roughly 301,413 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 216% above the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.

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