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Wildfires in Almofala

Almofala, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 720 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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

These figures leave out one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Low 18° · 52 % · 13 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 19° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 18° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 15° · 39 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 13° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 11° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 13° · 43 % · 30 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 municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

720
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
2
fires
19
km²

How many times has Almofala burned?

Almofala has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Castro Daire fire, August 2025, with 199 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 720 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 548 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
720
cumulative ha
548
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 Almofala

  1. 199 ha Castro Daire fire, August 2025 where it started 11% of the municipality · 200 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 521 ha Almofala fire, October 2017 where it started 28% of the municipality · 828 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 12 ha Touro fire, February 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 196 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

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

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