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Wildfires in Mesquitela

Mesquitela, Portugal, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 674 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Fri 6 Moderate 14° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Low 17° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Moderate 14° · 63 % · 70 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 71 % · 55 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 15° · 91 % · 56 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Very low 14° · 91 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 73 % · 54 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 12° · 91 % · 45 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

674
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
4
fires
17
km²

How many times has Mesquitela burned?

Mesquitela has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Fornos de Algodres fire, 7 August 2026, with 131 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 674 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 637 hectares, 38 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4
fires
3
years with fire
674
cumulative ha
637
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 Mesquitela

  1. 131 ha Fornos de Algodres fire, 7 August 2026 7.8% of the freguesia · 311 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 224 ha Seia fire, October 2017 13% of the freguesia · 19,125 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 41 ha Gouveia fire, July 2017 2.4% of the freguesia · 1,426 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 277 ha Celorico da Beira fire, August 2016 16% of the freguesia · 678 ha in total · 1 day

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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