Fire near Valdesamario (ES)

42.74°N, 6.03°W · first detected on 22 July at 21:55

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 22 July at 21:55 to 26 July at 15:16, that is 4 days, through 579 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 3,481 ha.

Detected extent: 3,481 ha
Cumulative power: 19,401 MW
Peak power: 693 MW
Detections: 579

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a 375 m pixel counts in full even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal satellite detection and are not an official assessment: only the local fire and civil protection authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is centred on this fire and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the whole fire, from the first satellite pass to the last. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “12 h” stacks twelve hours , as the home map does, where stacking avoids an empty screen between two satellite passes. Both are true, but they say different things.

The detected extent

Outline of the burned area near Valdesamario (ES), drawn over satellite imagery — The outline is the union of the ground footprints of every satellite detection of this fire, from the first pass to the last. The background is the EOX cloudless Sentinel-2 mosaic, 2024 vintage: it shows the landscape BEFORE these fires, not the burn scar.

The spread, pass after pass

Valdesamario (ES) seen by Sentinel-2 on 19 July — One image per usable Sentinel-2 pass, on the same framing throughout so that the comparison means something. The satellite comes back every two to five days and clouds rule out some of the passes: the gaps in the series are days without an image, not days without fire.

Valdesamario (ES) seen by Sentinel-2 on 22 July — One image per usable Sentinel-2 pass, on the same framing throughout so that the comparison means something. The satellite comes back every two to five days and clouds rule out some of the passes: the gaps in the series are days without an image, not days without fire.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 30 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power	Detections	Sensor
13 August at 15:28	13 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 14:58	14 MW	1	Met12
26 July at 15:16	15 MW	2	N20
26 July at 14:55	9 MW	2	N
26 July at 14:21	89 MW	5	N21
26 July at 05:32	37 MW	6	N20
26 July at 05:13	115 MW	11	N
26 July at 04:38	180 MW	11	N21
26 July at 03:52	80 MW	13	N20
26 July at 03:32	102 MW	9	N
25 July at 22:14	1,444 MW	5	Terra
25 July at 17:29	353 MW	6	Aqua
25 July at 16:20	318 MW	7	N21
25 July at 15:33	164 MW	4	N20
25 July at 15:16	91 MW	3	N
25 July at 14:40	7 MW	1	N21
25 July at 11:09	26 MW	1	Terra
25 July at 06:27	19 MW	2	Aqua
25 July at 04:56	28 MW	6	N21
25 July at 04:11	136 MW	31	N20
25 July at 03:52	60 MW	20	N
25 July at 03:15	268 MW	27	N21
24 July at 16:52	1,452 MW	5	Aqua
24 July at 15:55	1,965 MW	36	N20
24 July at 15:33	2,815 MW	31	N
24 July at 14:57	914 MW	7	N21
24 July at 14:14	483 MW	13	N20
24 July at 07:27	267 MW	2	Aqua
24 July at 05:49	167 MW	26	N
24 July at 05:49	39 MW	1	Aqua
24 July at 05:13	361 MW	52	N21
24 July at 04:30	358 MW	72	N20
24 July at 04:11	354 MW	34	N
24 July at 03:34	6 MW	4	N21
23 July at 22:34	1,548 MW	15	Terra
23 July at 17:52	651 MW	4	Aqua
23 July at 16:12	339 MW	7	N20
23 July at 15:53	601 MW	9	N
23 July at 15:18	962 MW	13	N21
23 July at 14:32	521 MW	14	N20
23 July at 14:14	255 MW	8	N
23 July at 11:28	202 MW	6	Terra
23 July at 06:49	75 MW	4	Aqua
23 July at 05:34	88 MW	7	N21
23 July at 04:47	90 MW	9	N20
23 July at 04:28	108 MW	13	N
23 July at 03:54	130 MW	9	N21
22 July at 23:33	982 MW	4	Terra
22 July at 21:55	128 MW	2	Terra

One other fire near Valdesamario (ES)

Separate fires, apart in time or in space, not pieces of this one. A single municipality can have several over one summer, and the forest of Fontainebleau alone covers 172 square kilometres.

on 28 July1,145 ha

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