Torre de Moncorvo fire, June 2025 Adeganha e Cardanha
The fire started on 20 June 2025 in Adeganha e Cardanha, Portugal, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 237 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality. According to ICNF, it was detected on 17 June 2025 at 16:15 and declared extinguished on 18 June 2025.
It is the 11th largest in Torre de Moncorvo since 2016 (of 14 with a page). Number 56 in Portugal in 2025, of 85.
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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.
- Burnt area
- 237ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 20 Jun 2025 – 20 Jun 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- freguesias
- Started on
- 20 Jun
- 2025
- Danger at start
- 34
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.2 mm on 24 Jun.
This area had burned before
1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3 ha in 2020.
What happened to each town
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237 ha3.7 %
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 land65 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland19 %
- Agricultural areas16 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
Official record
According to ICNF, this fire started on 17 June 2025 and burned 232 ha (the satellite measured 237 ha).
- Torre de Moncorvo Adeganha 17 June 2025 · 16:15 232 ha · extinguished on 18 June 2025 · cause: arson
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jun | 37.0 °C | 25 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 21 Jun after | 32.6 °C | 34 % | 34 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 32 |
| 22 Jun after | 33.0 °C | 38 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 23 Jun after | 33.8 °C | 26 % | 46 km/h | 0.9 mm | High 32 |
| 24 Jun after | 23.6 °C | 66 % | 44 km/h | 7.2 mm | Very low 2 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 21 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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)
Other fires nearby
- 5,163 haMirandela FrechasAugust 2025 · 3 days · 12 km away
- 3,403 haTorre de Moncorvo Vilarinho da CastanheiraAugust 2026 · 4 days · 16 km away
- 3,389 haCarrazeda de Ansiães LinharesJuly 2022 · 6 days · 25 km away
- 11,932 haFreixo de Espada à Cinta CarviçaisAugust 2025 · 4 days · 26 km away
- 5,710 haFreixo de Espada à Cinta LigaresAugust 2017 · 2 days · 26 km away
- 5,971 haFreixo de Espada à Cinta União das Freguesias de Lagoaça e FornosSeptember 2016 · 3 days · 29 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Torre de Moncorvo fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 20 June 2025 and 20 June 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to ICNF, it was detected on 17 June 2025 at 16:15 and declared extinguished on 18 June 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 237 hectares (2.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Adeganha e Cardanha (237 ha, 3.7 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Adeganha e Cardanha and came within 3.4 km of its centre. 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 37.0 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 45 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.
Emergency number: 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
- ICNF · Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas ↗
- ANEPC · Proteção Civil ↗
- Fogos.pt (ocorrências em tempo real) ↗
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- Compared with ICNF: 232 official ha against 237 ha of perimeter; they agree within 25%.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.