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Wildfires in Loriga

Loriga, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 664 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Tue 27 Moderate 18° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 20° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 21° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 20° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 21° · 33 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 20° · 40 % · 46 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 20° · 29 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 17° · 25 % · 22 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

664
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
3
fires
36
km²

How many times has Loriga burned?

Loriga has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Arganil fire, August 2025, with 508 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 664 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 513 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
664
cumulative ha
513
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 Loriga

  1. 508 ha Arganil fire, August 2025 14% of the municipality · 68,190 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 5 ha Seia fire, March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 330 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 152 ha Seia fire, August 2018 4.2% of the municipality · 238 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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