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Mangualde fire, August 2026 Santiago de Cassurrães e Póvoa de Cervães, Abrunhosa-a-Velha

Out · last detection 6 Aug 2026, 14:29 UTC

The fire started on 6 August 2026 in Santiago de Cassurrães e Póvoa de Cervães, Portugal, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 105 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities. According to ICNF, it was detected on 6 August 2026 at 15:06 and declared extinguished on 6 August 2026.

It is the 11th largest in Mangualde since 2016 (of 13 with a page). Number 77 in Portugal in 2026, of 78.

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Burnt area
105ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 1day
6 Aug 2026 – 6 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
2
freguesias
Started on
6 Aug
2026
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 48 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index
Average daily power
96MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Aug6 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

6 Aug 2026 · 96 MW · 2

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high
35km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 106 ha in 2017, 28 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 106 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Santiago de Cassurrães e Póvoa de Cervães 1,218 inhabitants · 2.0 km from the centre where it started
    90 ha reached on 6 Aug
    3.0 %
  2. Abrunhosa-a-Velha 440 inhabitants · 1.1 km from the centre
    15 ha
    0.9 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land94 %
  • Agricultural areas5.7 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area0.32 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.32 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

Official record

According to ICNF, this fire started on 6 August 2026 and burned 100 ha (the satellite measured 105 ha).

ICNF (Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas). This is the agency’s operational record: its figures may be revised when the year’s statistics are closed.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
6 Aug 32.4 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
7 Aug after 32.6 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
8 Aug after 32.1 °C 29 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
9 Aug after 29.3 °C 35 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Aug after 32.1 °C 31 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
11 Aug after 33.2 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
12 Aug after 34.4 °C 24 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
13 Aug after 33.9 °C 28 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
14 Aug after 31.5 °C 33 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
15 Aug after 33.1 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Aug after 34.4 °C 19 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 30 Jul 2026
After · 13 Aug 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 8 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1052 µg/m³
Optical depth0.57
456789
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 2Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mangualde fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (6 August 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 6 August 2026 (1 day from 6 August 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate. According to ICNF, it was detected on 6 August 2026 at 15:06 and declared extinguished on 6 August 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 105 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Santiago de Cassurrães e Póvoa de Cervães (90 ha, 3.0 %); Abrunhosa-a-Velha (15 ha, 0.9 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 1.1 km of the centre of Abrunhosa-a-Velha, the closest of the areas it touched. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.4 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Portugal (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 2 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • Compared with ICNF: 100 official ha against 105 ha of perimeter; they agree within 25%.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.