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PT · Portugal · Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo · 566 inhabitants

Wildfires in Escalhão

Escalhão, Portugal, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,547 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 23° · 41 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 21° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 44 % · 20 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 23° · 32 % · 16 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 43 % · 14 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 21° · 32 % · 20 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 21° · 36 % · 18 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 44 % · 19 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

2,547
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
4
fires
79
km²

How many times has Escalhão burned?

Escalhão has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo fire, September 2025, with 1,299 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,547 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,453 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
2,547
cumulative ha
2,453
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 Escalhão

  1. 1,299 ha Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo fire, September 2025 where it started 16% of the municipality · 1,616 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,153 ha Mata de Lobos fire, August 2025 15% of the municipality · 2,774 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 95 ha Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo fire, 14 September 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 264 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 0 ha Vila Nova de Foz Côa fire, 26 August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 754 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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