The broad Areas affected by historical fires From this month they will be declared catastrophic areas next week, which will make way to large aid, compensation and credits for affected people and companies. The Government does not give details about the resources that will be mobilized; However, the sources consulted by the electoral.es in the insurance sector estimate that The amounts released for the victims affected will exceed 18,000 euros per applicant, in the most serious and directly affected cases. As to Those destined for legal persons the scale with which government would be working around 9,200 euros By signature.
Without a doubt, it is extremely difficult to calculate the Costs of a sinister that is not yet extinguished Completely, according to the aforementioned sources. However, there is a similar precedent that allows first approaches.
It is also the very serious wave of fires suffered by Spain in 2022, the most serious in our country since the 90s, in which 310,000 hectares were burned. The calcined surface in August 2025 already exceeds that number, with 380,000, but experts believe that it still allows to establish reasonable conjectures.
Further It is difficult to set parallels with the actions that had to be taken after the devastating Dana from the end of 2024. The degree of destruction achieved then had no paragon with any previous natural disaster that records are recorded. Consequently, aid per victnted person climbed into the environment of 72,000 euros per victim.
Returning to Predictable scenario for 2025compensation per person will contemplate multiple supplements that will increase its final amount. This is the case of the resources that will be used for housing construction, for which they could be dedicated to 15,120 euros for total housing destruction. On the other hand, the investment for the rehabilitation of households that have been affected in their most basic structure is also taken into account, and that will be equivalent to 50% of their technical assessment, with a maximum of 10,320 euros. On the other hand, 5,160 are also allocated for damages that do not affect the structure of the usual housing, 2,580 due to destruction or damage of domestic equipment; and 9,224 euros for damage to common elements of general use of a community of owners under a horizontal property regime.
To all this, we must add the measures that each ministry could adopt with the aim of relieving the consequences of the fire to those affected, such as aid in agricultural, livestock, forestry and marine aquaculture productions; Fiscal benefits –Exvention of the IBI, the IAE or the IRPF, among others – or direct aid to local corporations to repair public domain infrastructure.
Taking into account that in the year 2022, the surface burned by fires throughout the year was 306,555 hectaresand that in the eight months of 2025 This surface has already been passed In the absence of four months to end the year, the disbursement by the government and the battery of measures available to the regions and affected people can be more large.
It is a trend that could mark future natural catastrophesas happened last November with the DANA, for which the Insurance Compensation Consortium allocated 3,311 million euros – this catastrophe concentrates more amount than the previous 11 for which the most money had been destined.
While it is true that most fires in 2025 have been provoked, The situation derived from climate change makes extinction more and more Of them, what will – in the coming years – that the cost to which the State will have to stop and mitigate the effects of natural disasters, if appropriate measures are not taken in time, they can increase.
Catastrophic Zone Declaration
As three years ago when the government declared areas seriously affected by Civil Protection emergencies (ZAEPC) the autonomous communities ravaged by fires, the Executive has resorted to the Article 23 of the National Civil Protection System Lawwhich establishes that a catastrophic zone should not only be delimited to the area in which it affects, but must be valued “that personal or material damage derived from an incident that seriously disturbs the living conditions of the population […] or when the paralysis occurs […] Of all or some of the essential public services. “For this reason, Pedro Sánchez announced last Monday in the Extremadura town of Jarilla that next Tuesday, in the Council of Ministers, The locations affected by fires will be declared catastrophic areas. It is a measure that has to get ahead with the support of the Council and? propose the Ministries of Finance, Public Administrations and the Interior.
Once the declaration is approvedthe law establishes that it is the State in charge of reparation both of the material damage that have been caused by the natural disaster, as well as the person responsible for the aid that will be made available to both companies and affected citizens.
Thus, the Measure battery to which the Executive can resort to trying to alleviate the damages caused by the fires range from aid economic direct, compensation to local administrations, Aid to natural, legal or companies; o Loan lines preferential subsidized by the Official Credit Institute-these last were used with the DANA tragedy and with the Covid-19 Pandemia.
Losses of more than 600 million for the field
The Coordinator of Agricultural and Livestock Organizations (COAG) estimates in more than 600 million the losses derived from the fire wave for the field. All this, taking into account the latest agroseguro update that certifies the loss of 19,100 hectares of cultivation For the fire. “The situation is catastrophic,” said Coag’s head of the Environment, Javier Fatás, who has indicated that the situation is leading the sector to losses that still value, but that they already estimate above those 600 million euros in both woody crops, such as pastures and apícolas settlements, among others. Agriculture and livestock will need “all the support” of the administrations, and requested that the field be present in the negotiations that may be for the State Pact to mitigate the climatic emergency.
