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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
Summary written on Jul 24, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.
Spanning 650 hectares (1,606 acres) near Villa del Prado, Spain, an active wildfire has triggered 57 satellite heat detections over the past 48 hours, illustrating a wide dispersal of active burning.
Orbiting sensors currently register a moderate heat intensity across the active front.
In context
This wildfire burned in Spain for 1 day. In total it burned about 650 ha (1,606 acres) — around 6.5 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 301,413 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 216% above the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.
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