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Wildfires in Almeida

Almeida, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 801 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 87 % · 55 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 14° · 92 % · 48 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 71 % · 54 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 75 % · 47 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 14° · 87 % · 43 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 91 % · 55 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 15° · 60 % · 60 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 18° · 89 % · 59 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per freguesia, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Almeida: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

801
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
2
fires
53
km²

How many times has Almeida burned?

Almeida has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo fire, August 2025, with 496 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 801 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 571 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
801
cumulative ha
571
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Portugal

Fires that entered Almeida

  1. 496 ha Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo fire, August 2025 9.4% of the freguesia · 2,708 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 305 ha Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo fire, September 2017 where it started 5.8% of the freguesia · 584 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and freguesia boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, DG Territory (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per freguesia is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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