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Wildfires in Castelejo

Castelejo, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,704 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 91% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 4 Moderate 16° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 16° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Moderate 16° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 76 % · 17 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 65 % · 36 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 83 % · 51 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 89 % · 55 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 98 % · 49 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 Fundão: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

2,704
hectares burned
91 %
of its area
2
fires
30
km²

How many times has Castelejo burned?

Castelejo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Arganil fire, August 2025, with 2,350 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,704 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,369 hectares, 79 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
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  7.   22
  8.   23
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  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,704
cumulative ha
2,369
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 Castelejo

  1. 2,350 ha Arganil fire, August 2025 79% of the freguesia · 68,190 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 354 ha Castelejo fire, September 2017 where it started 12% of the freguesia · 2,434 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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