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Wildfires in Castainço

Castainço, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,289 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 96% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 94 % · 44 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 85 % · 50 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 14° · 84 % · 53 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 13° · 85 % · 44 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 13° · 93 % · 64 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 16° · 77 % · 61 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 16° · 57 % · 73 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 16° · 73 % · 59 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 freguesia, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Penedono: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,289
hectares burned
96 %
of its area
2
fires
13
km²

How many times has Castainço burned?

Castainço has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Trancoso fire, August 2025, with 1,205 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,289 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,205 hectares, 90 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
1,289
cumulative ha
1,205
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 Castainço

  1. 1,205 ha Trancoso fire, August 2025 90% of the freguesia · 78,447 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 84 ha Sernancelhe fire, August 2017 6.3% of the freguesia · 1,164 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

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

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