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Spain has come across this summer during the worst fire over the past 30 years. These fires, equipped with strong summer heat, have already destroyed more than 150,000 hectares of land, mainly in the regions of Galicia and Castile – Leon in the north -west.
Firefighters are fighting with a flame with the support of the armed forces developed by the Spanish government. Meanwhile, about 30,000 people were removed from their houses, and the inhabitants are designed to wear masks and stay indoors to avoid inhaling smoke and ash.
When fires destroy forest or agricultural areas, often after passing, they also facilitate the cheaper operation of the Earth. Based on this theory, a wave of misinformation scans social networks according to the statement that fires were deliberately caused, in order to clean the land and provide them for construction projects.
“On paper” works in the Canary Islands and Madrid
Viral posts suggest that fires in Spain were deliberately caused so that the contractors could later build fried land, but this is not true.
The Law of Spain Montes clearly prohibits the change in the use of forest lands within 30 years after the fire to prevent intentional arson to make a profit.
The law was tightened in 2006 under the then President of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Sapathero (PSOE) to introduce a 30 -year ban at the national level and allowed only one exception: if a change in use (for example, the circulation of forest to urban lands) was already approved before the fire.
In 2015, under the former President Mariano Rakhui (p.), The second exception was added in the case when the new law announces the change necessary for the “reasons for the highest public interest”, such as the construction of the basic infrastructure. But this is a process that requires the approval of the government or region, and not that a private contractor can do it independently.
Thus, in accordance with these legal guarantees, fires do not open the door for the development of real estate, because new projects cannot circumvent a 30 -year restriction.
The alleged “windows” circulating on the Internet (for example, the idea that the sale of land or its burning allows an immediate review) does not exist in the law.
Any project striving to change land use should be designed and approved long before the fire or should pass the time, demanding legal and environmental procedures, making arson ineffective and illegal way to development.
In the same spirit, another series of posts claims that the fires of August 2025 at a tariff (Cadith, Andalusia) began to resolve coastal urban development, but events refute the requirement.
Viral posts, including articles about large Spanish media, such as Elspanyol, report “more than eight projects”, and suggest that fires would change land use for construction.
The fire near the Atlanter in the tariff actually passed about two residential complexes, but the plots have already been described as city lands in local planning documents (PGOU) and were not affected by damage to the fire.
Another reputation refers to the construction of a luxurious tourist resort in El LENTISKAL, but this area is located in the natural park del Esterekhi and is far from the burned zone. It is protected by strict environmental legislation without any request for the design of the resort until August 2025.
Another statement states that the fire in the cow cantos, the area in the Madrid area, is associated with a nearby park.
In fact, however, the panels of the photoelectric station will be installed in Soto del Real, in another municipality, 12 kilometers from the burned -out zone, while Tres Cantos occupies only part of the transport line.
The project has already ensured the environmental permit in May 2023 and received permission to build from the Ministry of Ecological Transition in November 2024, a few months before the fire.
Messages also falsify the project plan in early 2022 to claim that Tres Cantos was a planned site, ignoring the updated, approved plans that are shown the other way around.
Nevertheless, sources from the city council of Tres Cantos informed the research website Maldita.es that the municipality does not have an additional permit for the project, which means that construction can operate regardless of fires.