File:Large wildfire affecting the Natural Park of Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia (Spain).jpg

English: In the early afternoon of 11 July 2022, a fire ignited in Castilla y Léon in western Spain. The blaze is severely impacting the Natural Park of Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia, an area of great ecological value. About 4000 hectares have already been burned, and about 600 people have been evacuated from the area. Adverse climatological conditions, such as the drought which has been made worse in the past months by heatwaves, are fuelling the fire and complicating the firefighters’ efforts to control it. This false colour image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 13 July 2022, shows a pyrocumulus (i.e., a dense cumuliform cloud produced by the intense heat of the air from the surface) emerging from the smoke generated by the fire blaze. The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) is supporting the operations in the Autonomous Region: the Rapid Mapping service has been activated on 13 July (EMSR590) by the Centro de Coordinacion Operativa (CECOP) of the Direccion General de Proteccion Civil y Emergencias. One Delineation Product has already been delivered.