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Wildfires in Benespera

Benespera, Portugal, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 239 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 20° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 19° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 17° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 14° · 41 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 12° · 38 % · 46 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 13° · 43 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 13° · 51 % · 32 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

239
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
6
fires
18
km²

How many times has Benespera burned?

Benespera has burned 6 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sabugal fire, July 2026, with 54 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 239 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 229 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
6
years with fire
239
cumulative ha
229
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 Benespera

  1. 54 ha Sabugal fire, July 2026 3.0% of the municipality · 498 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 95 ha Sabugal fire, August 2025 5.2% of the municipality · 23,594 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 41 ha Guarda fire, 7 July 2022 2.3% of the municipality · 749 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 7 ha Sabugal fire, 5 August 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 359 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 31 ha Guarda fire, August 2018 1.7% of the municipality · 374 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 10 ha Guarda fire, August 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 4,088 ha in total · 6 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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