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Wildfires in Britelo

Britelo, Portugal: 3 fires since 2016 burned 1,328 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.0 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 21° · 43 % · 33 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 78 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 21° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 20° · 51 % · 20 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 23° · 35 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 23° · 30 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 31 % · 26 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

1,328
hectares burned
1.0×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
3
fires
13
km²

How many times has Britelo burned?

Britelo has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Ponte da Barca fire, July 2025, with 758 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,328 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 843 hectares, 66 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,328
cumulative ha
843
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 Britelo

  1. 758 ha Ponte da Barca fire, July 2025 59% of the municipality · 7,225 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 562 ha Ponte da Barca fire, July 2022 where it started 44% of the municipality · 974 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 8 ha Arcos de Valdevez fire, 8 August 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 6,662 ha in total · 9 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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