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Wildfires in Casteleiro

Casteleiro, Portugal, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,241 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% 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. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 77 % · 58 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 96 % · 61 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 15° · 93 % · 56 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 17° · 79 % · 49 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 78 % · 42 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 15° · 83 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 93 % · 53 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 15° · 96 % · 54 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 Sabugal: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

1,241
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
4
fires
45
km²

How many times has Casteleiro burned?

Casteleiro has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Sabugal fire, August 2025, with 963 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,241 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,022 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
1,241
cumulative ha
1,022
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 Casteleiro

  1. 963 ha Sabugal fire, August 2025 22% of the freguesia · 23,594 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 134 ha Sabugal fire, August 2022 3.0% of the freguesia · 331 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 55 ha Sabugal fire, July 2021 1.2% of the freguesia · 447 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 89 ha Sabugal fire, August 2020 2.0% of the freguesia · 712 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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