Overview
- The region recorded 1,492 fires, with 45% of ignitions and 94% of the burned area occurring in August’s 673 blazes.
- Authorities say more than 70% of the August fires were intentional, with 15 people brought before the courts for arson and two for negligence.
- The season prompted 2,200 confinements and 400 evacuations as fires advanced on communities.
- Officials rank 2025 as Galicia’s third worst year since records began and the worst of this century, with major fires in Larouco (31,778 ha), Oímbra (23,764 ha) and Chandrexa de Queixa (23,036 ha).
- The EFFIS/Copernicus system estimates roughly 171,000 hectares burned, including about 5,000 hectares in protected land near Pena Trevinca, diverging from the regional tally.