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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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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
The story so far
About 15 km north of Guitiriz.
Summary written on Jul 29, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.
Burning near Guitiriz, Spain, an active wildfire spanning 100 ha (247 acres) has triggered an intense heat signature detected by satellites, with four heat signatures clustering nearby following its start on 2026-07-29.
In context
This wildfire burned in Spain for 2 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.
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 301,519 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 217% above the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.
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