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Wildfires in Facha

Facha, Portugal, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 653 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 43% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 78 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 89 % · 28 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 77 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 57 % · 18 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 25° · 37 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 24° · 41 % · 18 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

653
hectares burned
43 %
of its area
5
fires
15
km²

How many times has Facha burned?

Facha has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ponte de Lima fire, August 2026, with 112 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 653 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 516 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
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  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
653
cumulative ha
516
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 Facha

  1. 112 ha Ponte de Lima fire, August 2026 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 462 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 404 ha Ponte de Lima fire, July 2025 where it started 26% of the municipality · 935 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3 ha Geraz do Lima (Santa Maria, Santa Leocádia e Moreira) e Deão fire, August 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 111 ha Ponte de Lima fire, 25 July 2020 7.2% of the municipality · 391 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 24 ha Ponte de Lima fire, 12 August 2016 1.6% of the municipality · 195 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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