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PT · Portugal · Guarda · 121 inhabitants

Wildfires in Pega

Pega, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 809 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 75% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 3 Moderate 13° · 38 % · 45 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 12° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 14° · 33 % · 29 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 44 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 78 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 63 % · 57 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 15° · 93 % · 71 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 13° · 98 % · 79 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

809
hectares burned
75 %
of its area
2
fires
11
km²

How many times has Pega burned?

Pega has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Sabugal fire, August 2025, with 567 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 809 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 775 hectares, 72 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
809
cumulative ha
775
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 Pega

  1. 567 ha Sabugal fire, August 2025 53% of the municipality · 23,594 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 242 ha Sabugal fire, 15 October 2017 23% of the municipality · 2,051 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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