Pacios da Serra · Quiroga, Lugo · 15–27 September 2026
On 16 September the Xunta lifted a preventive emergency measure covering the Quiroga fire. In the same bulletin it still described the fire as active. To understand how both statements could be true, follow two questions separately: what prompted the authorities to act for nearby settlements, and when did crews bring the fire under control?
Three settlements and a decision on 16 September
The Xunta dated the start to 15:25 on 15 September. The following afternoon, it declared Situación 2. Its notice lifting the measure identified the reason for the declaration: proximity to Casal de Vello, As Barxas and Penarrubia. At that point the agency estimated 360 hectares affected and said the fire was progressing towards stabilization.
These place names belong on a map of settlements cited in the decision. Plotting them as damaged villages would make a different claim. Proximity does not establish that flames entered a settlement, that residents evacuated or that buildings were lost. Nor do the notices give a distance from the fire front to each settlement.
When did the fire actually end?
The Xunta reported control on 18 September. Its closing bulletin put extinction at 13:55 on 27 September. A timeline ending with the withdrawal of Situación 2 would therefore omit the control milestone and end eleven calendar days before declared extinction.
Reading the final footprint
The closing account divides 467.4 affected hectares into 397 wooded and 70.4 open hectares. That makes wooded land about 85% of the reported footprint (397 divided by 467.4). It is a land-cover share. It does not mean that 85% of local woodland burned, or that 85% of trees within the footprint died. The former question requires the total woodland area in a defined territory; the latter requires field or remote-sensing evidence about mortality.
For comparison with other incidents, keep the decision about settlements, the dated fire status and the final land-cover breakdown as separate records. These bulletins come from the same authority: together they document its decisions over time, but they are not independent surveys of fire behaviour or damage.
Sources reviewed 4 November 2026. Wooded share calculated by Tecnobosque from the final Xunta figures.