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Spain Moves to Declare Emergency Zones and Launch Climate Commission as Northwest Wildfires Persist

The move follows a season that has burned over 411,000 hectares, with Galicia reporting stabilization of its largest blazes as León and Zamora continue evacuations.

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Overview

  • Tuesday’s Cabinet agenda includes designating areas “affected by an emergency of protection civil,” the first step to unlock fiscal and financial aid, and activating a new interministerial climate commission.
  • Galicia’s major fires at Larouco (about 30,000 hectares) and Chandrexa–Vilariño (19,000) are stabilized, while a new blaze in A Pobra do Brollón grows to roughly 600 hectares and disrupts a highway and rail services on the Monforte–Ponferrada line.
  • Castilla y León maintains five high-severity fronts — including Fasgar, La Baña, Garaño and Porto — with winds reactivating flanks and prompting fresh evacuations across more than a dozen localities.
  • Galicia vows tighter enforcement on land clearing and seeks continued military and machinery support, and the Xunta drafts post-fire measures to curb ash and sediment runoff that could threaten water supplies.
  • Asturias proposes a Northwest coordination forum with Galicia, Castilla y León and Cantabria to speed cross-border responses, and plans to seek emergency status after reporting roughly 5,500–6,000 hectares burned.