File:Extreme wildfire ravaging Losacio in Castilla y Léon, Spain.jpg

English: A new wildfire is ravaging a large area near Losacio in the Province of Zamora in the Spanish autonomous region of Castilla y Léon. The blaze ignited on 17 July 2022. According to the media, the wildfire has caused two casualties, fifteen people to be injured and about 6,000 residents to be evacuated from their homes. An expert from the Centro Integrado de Formación Profesional de Almázcara, a member of the Copernicus Academy, has developed an estimate of the perimeter of the wildfire, based on the hot spots detected by satelliteon 19 July 2022 at 5:28 CET. According to his data, the area affected by the Losacio wildfire exceeds 27,000 hectares. Moreover, the blaze has joined the area that had previously been affected by the disastrous Sierra de la Culebra wildfire in June 2022. The two together are estimated to be one of the largest fires in Spain’s recent history. This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 18 July 2022, shows the smoke cloud and active flames of the Losacio wildfire as well as the burn scar of the Sierra de la Culebra one. The spatial and temporal resolution of the free and open data supplied by the Copernicus Sentinel satellites allows the timely monitoring of wildfires in Europe and across the world.