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Incendio de Burgohondo

Burgohondo–Navaluenga

Ávila40.3679, -4.6033
perimetrado, con frentes activosObserved 26 Jul 2026, 10:19 UTC
Physical identityÁvila/Burgohondo remains physically separate from Madrid Sierra Oeste; a small discontinuous contact did not establish a continuous fire edge.
Administrative identityÁvila, Castilla y León
Operational groupingcentral-spain-national-emergency
Forecast regionES-CRegional context only—not an incident growth simulation

Current operational situation

Status & public orders

Official reported area21,000 haJunta de Castilla y León; national emergency unified command
EFFIS mapped area45,405 haSatellite-mapped burnt area · separate measurement
Evacuated16 municipalities reported evacuated; no non-overlapping person total frozenÁvila, Castilla y León
Confined3 municipalities reported confined; no non-overlapping person total frozenÁvila, Castilla y León

Responsible authorities

responsible operational authorityJunta de Castilla y León; national emergency unified command

Evacuation, confinement and closure records

Road closureeffective-at-frozen-update
N-403 restriction between Cadalso de los Vidrios and Almorox.

National emergency command / road authority · effective Not published

No authority polygon published; map uses a point reference only.

Measurement ledger

Perimeters kept separate

An operational area estimate and an EFFIS satellite-mapped burnt-area perimeter may cover different objects at different times. Auburn neither merges them nor silently chooses one.

EFFIS record 562592 · Ávila physical incident45,405 ha

European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), JRC
Updated 23 Jul 2026, 05:55 UTC

A remote-sensing perimeter/area estimate kept separate from national or incident-command reported hectares.

Regional context · Auburn IC1

14-day scenario envelope

This is regional context—not an incident-specific prediction. It does not forecast an exact perimeter, arrival time or named-place impact.

0-72hEXTREME · P50 0.664

P10 0.656 · P90 0.672

S · SW · NE
P10/P50/P90 ECMWF ensemble fire-weather pressure range; not a fire-arrival probability.
days-4-7EXTREME · P50 0.819

P10 0.783 · P90 0.843

NE
P10/P50/P90 ECMWF ensemble fire-weather pressure range; not a fire-arrival probability.
days-8-14EXTREME · P50 0.787

P10 0.730 · P90 0.814

NE
P10/P50/P90 ECMWF ensemble fire-weather scenario envelope; direction is a broad monitoring corridor, never a predicted fireline.
0.59S
0.64SW
0.76NE
0.82NE
0.84NE
0.82NE
0.80NE
0.81NE
0.81NE
0.78NE
0.78NE
0.79NE
0.79NE
0.78NE

Chronology

Incident timeline

  1. newsReporting confirms Madrid Sierra Oeste and Ávila/Burgohondo are not a continuous physical perimeter.

    Reporting confirms Madrid Sierra Oeste and Ávila/Burgohondo are not a continuous physical perimeter.

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