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Moura fire, June 2026 Santo Aleixo da Restauração

Out · last detection 8 Jun 2026, 03:13 UTC

The fire started on 7 June 2026 in Santo Aleixo da Restauração, Portugal, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 661 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality. According to ICNF, it was detected on 7 June 2026 at 14:41 and declared extinguished on 7 June 2026.

Number 14 in Portugal in 2026, of 78.

The power measured by the satellite is low (2.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
661ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
7 Jun 2026 – 7 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
1
freguesias
Started on
7 Jun
2026
Heat detections
7
in a single hotspot: 2 MW
Danger at start
38
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
6MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Jun7 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

8

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
31km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Santo Aleixo da Restauração 793 inhabitants · 2.7 km from the town where it started
    662 ha reached on 8 Jun
    2.8 %

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

What burned

  • Agricultural areas78 %
  • Broadleaved forest22 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %

Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.

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

Official record

According to ICNF, this fire started on 7 June 2026 and burned 654 ha (the satellite measured 661 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)
7 Jun 32.9 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
8 Jun after 30.6 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Jun after 31.3 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
10 Jun after 33.3 °C 20 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Jun after 34.7 °C 28 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
12 Jun after 35.4 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
13 Jun after 33.5 °C 22 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Jun after 29.8 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.8 mm High 26
15 Jun after 30.6 °C 34 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
16 Jun after 33.4 °C 32 % 20 km/h 0.1 mm High 29
17 Jun after 35.8 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm High 34

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 May 2026
After · 14 Jun 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 6 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 9 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak9 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1034 µg/m³
Optical depth0.17
5678910
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 · 7Every 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 Moura fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 7 June 2026 and 7 June 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to ICNF, it was detected on 7 June 2026 at 14:41 and declared extinguished on 7 June 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 661 hectares (6.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Santo Aleixo da Restauração (662 ha, 2.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.7 km of Santo Aleixo da Restauração. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class Very 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.

Emergency number: 112

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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.