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Wildfires in Freixo

Freixo, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,679 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 97% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Sat 31 Moderate 20° · 33 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 19° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 17° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 12° · 39 % · 44 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 14° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 14° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 15° · 33 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Low 15° · 73 % · 38 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

1,679
hectares burned
97 %
of its area
2
fires
17
km²

How many times has Freixo burned?

Freixo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Guarda fire, July 2026, with 930 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,679 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 979 hectares, 56 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
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  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,679
cumulative ha
979
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 Freixo

  1. 930 ha Guarda fire, July 2026 54% of the municipality · 5,226 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 749 ha Guarda fire, 17 July 2017 43% of the municipality · 8,991 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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