Wildfire near San Bartolomé de la Torre (ES)
True color
Fire (SWIR)
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True color (left): as the eye sees it.
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Over a 35-day period, a wildfire near San Bartolomé de la Torre, Spain, expanded at an average rate of approximately 131 hectares per day, ultimately consuming 4,595 hectares of land. The blaze, which began on June 8, 2026, primarily impacted agricultural areas and transitional woodland-shrub landscapes before reaching its conclusion.