Overview

• Satellite data from EFFIS put the 2025 area burned at 382,607 hectares, confirming the most extensive wildfire season of the century in Spain.
• The Jarilla blaze in Cáceres has scorched about 15,500 hectares with a roughly 155–160 km perimeter, drawing up to 25 aircraft, UME units and reinforcements as Pedro Sánchez visits the forward command post.
• Authorities report more than 30,000 evacuations in recent days and four deaths, with hazardous smoke driving PM2.5 to unhealthy levels in parts of Zamora, León, Ourense and Cáceres.
• Operational fronts remain volatile: Porto de Sanabria adds fresh aerial assets after low visibility grounded flights, Jarilla has spread into Salamanca, and new ignitions in Madrid forced precautionary road closures.
• The crisis fuels a political clash as Sánchez touts a cross‑party pact, PP leaders fault the response and resist raising to level 3, and ministers cite unprecedented UME deployments while Galicia’s Rueda demands more resources.