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PT · Portugal · Celorico da Beira · 143 inhabitants

Wildfires in Maçal do Chão

Maçal do Chão, Portugal, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2025: 14 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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. Thu 5 Moderate 15° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 14° · 41 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Moderate 17° · 56 % · 45 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 65 % · 58 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 93 % · 61 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 17° · 87 % · 43 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 80 % · 50 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 freguesia, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Celorico da Beira: hourly forecast

The freguesia and its fires

Since 2016

14
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
1
fires
15
km²

How many times has Maçal do Chão burned?

Maçal do Chão has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2025. The most recent: Guarda fire, August 2025, with 14 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
14
cumulative ha
15 Aug 2025
most recent

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 Maçal do Chão

  1. 14 ha Guarda fire, August 2025 1.0% of the freguesia · 9,523 ha in total · 3 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and freguesia boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, DG Territory (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per freguesia is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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