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Wildfires in Barroca

Barroca, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,008 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 21° · 27 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 22° · 38 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 20° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 22° · 45 % · 14 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 22° · 39 % · 27 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

1,008
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
3
fires
23
km²

How many times has Barroca burned?

Barroca has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Arganil fire, August 2025, with 469 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,008 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 902 hectares, 39 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,008
cumulative ha
902
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 Barroca

  1. 469 ha Arganil fire, August 2025 20% of the municipality · 68,190 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 536 ha Fundão fire, September 2024 23% of the municipality · 967 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 3 ha Covilhã fire, August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 238 ha in total · 2 days

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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