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Wildfires in Capela

Capela, Portugal, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 993 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 75% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 27 Very low 19° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 22° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 22° · 40 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 23° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 28 % · 35 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

993
hectares burned
75 %
of its area
5
fires
13
km²

How many times has Capela burned?

Capela has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Penafiel fire, July 2025, with 375 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
993
cumulative ha
29 Jul 2025
most recent

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 Capela

  1. 375 ha Penafiel fire, July 2025 28% of the municipality · 1,705 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 585 ha Aguiar de Sousa fire, September 2024 44% of the municipality · 4,706 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 10 ha Penafiel fire, August 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 309 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 0 ha Penafiel fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 554 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 23 ha Paredes fire, August 2017 1.7% of the municipality · 334 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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