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Wildfires in Erada

Erada, Portugal: 2 fires since 2017 burned 4,439 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.0 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 26 Moderate 21° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 17° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 20° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 21° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 21° · 30 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 18° · 49 % · 46 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 19° · 41 % · 39 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

4,439
hectares burned
1.0×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
2
fires
43
km²

How many times has Erada burned?

Erada has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Arganil fire, August 2025, with 4,260 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,439 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,260 hectares, 98 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,439
cumulative ha
4,260
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 Erada

  1. 4,260 ha Arganil fire, August 2025 98% of the municipality · 68,190 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 179 ha Covilhã fire, September 2017 4.1% of the municipality · 737 ha in total · 3 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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